Is open science a double-edged sword?: data sharing and the changing citation pattern of Chinese economics articles.

ABSTRACT: Data sharing is an important part of open science (OS), and more and more institutions and journals have been enforcing open data (OD) policies. OD is advocated to help increase academic influences and promote scientific discovery and development, but such a proposition has not been elaborated on well. This study explores the nuanced effects of the OD policies on the citation pattern of articles by using the case of Chinese economics journals. China Industrial Economics (CIE) is the first and only Chinese social science journal so far to adopt a compulsory OD policy, requiring all published articles to share original data and processing codes. We use the article-level data and difference-in-differences (DID) approach to compare the citation performance of articles published in CIE a

SUBMITTER: Zhang L 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10028759 | biostudies-literature | 2023

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature