{"status":"ok","message-type":"work","message-version":"1.0.0","message":{"indexed":{"date-parts":[[2025,8,2]],"date-time":"2025-08-02T17:32:10Z","timestamp":1754155930103,"version":"3.41.2"},"reference-count":49,"publisher":"Emerald","issue":"3","license":[{"start":{"date-parts":[[2021,10,11]],"date-time":"2021-10-11T00:00:00Z","timestamp":1633910400000},"content-version":"tdm","delay-in-days":0,"URL":"https:\/\/www.emerald.com\/insight\/site-policies"}],"content-domain":{"domain":[],"crossmark-restriction":false},"short-container-title":["LHT"],"published-print":{"date-parts":[[2022,5,27]]},"abstract":"<jats:sec><jats:title content-type=\"abstract-subheading\">Purpose<\/jats:title><jats:p>Citation is an important measure of quality, and it plays a vital role in evaluating scientific research. However, citation advantage varies from discipline to discipline, subject to subject and topic to topic. This study aims to compare the citation advantage of open access and toll access articles from four subfields of computer science.<\/jats:p><\/jats:sec><jats:sec><jats:title content-type=\"abstract-subheading\">Design\/methodology\/approach<\/jats:title><jats:p>This research studies the articles published by two prestigious publishers: Springer and Elsevier in the author-pays charges model from 2011 to 2015. For experimentation, four sub-domains of computer science are selected including (a) artificial intelligence, (b) human\u2013computer interaction, (c) computer vision and graphics, and (d) software engineering. The open-access and toll-based citation advantage is studied and analyzed at the micro level within the computer science domain by performing independent sample <jats:italic>t<\/jats:italic>-tests.<\/jats:p><\/jats:sec><jats:sec><jats:title content-type=\"abstract-subheading\">Findings<\/jats:title><jats:p>The results of the study highlight that open access articles have a higher citation advantage as compared to toll access articles across years and sub-domains. Further, an increase in open access articles has been observed from 2011 to 2015. The findings of the study show that the citation advantage of open access articles varies among different sub-domains of a subject. The study contributed to the body of knowledge by validating the positive movement toward open access articles in the field of computer science and its sub-domains. Further, this work added the success of the author-pays charges model in terms of citation advantage to the literature of open access.<\/jats:p><\/jats:sec><jats:sec><jats:title content-type=\"abstract-subheading\">Originality\/value<\/jats:title><jats:p>To the best of the authors\u2019 knowledge, this is the first study to examine the citation advantage of the author-pays charges model at a subject level (computer science) along with four sub-domains of computer science.<\/jats:p><\/jats:sec>","DOI":"10.1108\/lht-05-2021-0154","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2021,10,10]],"date-time":"2021-10-10T16:24:50Z","timestamp":1633883090000},"page":"685-703","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":11,"title":["Investigating the citation advantage of author-pays charges model in computer science research: a case study of Elsevier and Springer"],"prefix":"10.1108","volume":"40","author":[{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0003-1201-498X","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Tehmina","family":"Amjad","sequence":"first","affiliation":[],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"Mehwish","family":"Sabir","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"Azra","family":"Shamim","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"Masooma","family":"Amjad","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0002-8284-6354","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Ali","family":"Daud","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]}],"member":"140","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2021,10,11]]},"reference":[{"key":"key2022052603103460900_ref001","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"794","DOI":"10.1108\/LHT-07-2018-0097","article-title":"Uncovering diffusion trends in computer science and physics publications","volume":"37","year":"2019","journal-title":"Library Hi Tech"},{"key":"key2022052603103460900_ref002","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"69","DOI":"10.22452\/mjlis.vol22no1.6","article-title":"Indexing of authors according to their domain of expertise","volume":"22","year":"2017","journal-title":"Malaysian Journal Library Information Science"},{"key":"key2022052603103460900_ref003","first-page":"374","article-title":"MuICE: mutual influence and citation exclusivity author rank","volume":"52","year":"2015","journal-title":"Information Processing Management"},{"key":"key2022052603103460900_ref004","first-page":"101","article-title":"Impact of mutual influence while ranking authors in a co-authorship network","volume":"43","year":"2016","journal-title":"Kuwait Journal Science"},{"key":"key2022052603103460900_ref005","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"97","DOI":"10.1108\/LHT-05-2017-0090","article-title":"Ranking authors in academic social networks: a survey","volume":"36","year":"2018","journal-title":"Library Hi Tech"},{"key":"key2022052603103460900_ref006","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"915","DOI":"10.1007\/s11192-019-03334-2","article-title":"Scientific impact of an author and role of self-citations","volume":"122","year":"2020","journal-title":"Scientometrics"},{"issue":"5","key":"key2022052603103460900_ref007","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"372","DOI":"10.5860\/crl.65.5.372","article-title":"Do open-access articles have a greater research impact?","volume":"65","year":"2004","journal-title":"College and Research Libraries"},{"key":"key2022052603103460900_ref008","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"85","DOI":"10.1087\/095315106776387011","article-title":"Self-archiving practice and the influence of publisher policies in the social sciences","volume":"19","year":"2006","journal-title":"Learning Publishing"},{"key":"key2022052603103460900_ref009","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"129","DOI":"10.1017\/S1049096514001668","article-title":"Will open access get me cited? An analysis of the efficacy of open access publishing in political science","volume":"48","year":"2015","journal-title":"PS Political Science Politics"},{"first-page":"1","article-title":"Open access to scientific literature-increasing citations as an incentive for authors to make their publications freely accessible","year":"2009","key":"key2022052603103460900_ref010"},{"article-title":"The effect of open access on citation impact","volume-title":"National Policies on Open Access (OA) Provision for University Research Output: an International Meeting","year":"2004","key":"key2022052603103460900_ref011"},{"key":"key2022052603103460900_ref012","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"2185","DOI":"10.1007\/s11192-020-03578-3","article-title":"Drivers of article processing charges in open access","volume":"124","year":"2020","journal-title":"Scientometrics"},{"key":"key2022052603103460900_ref013","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"97","DOI":"10.1080\/03615261003623070","article-title":"Usage of open-access journals: findings from eleven top science and medical journals","volume":"58","year":"2010","journal-title":"Serials Librarian"},{"key":"key2022052603103460900_ref014","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"995","DOI":"10.1007\/s11192-019-03221-w","article-title":"The open access citation premium may depend on the openness and inclusiveness of the indexing database, but the relationship is controversial because it is ambiguous where the open access boundary lies","volume":"121","year":"2019","journal-title":"Scientometrics"},{"key":"key2022052603103460900_ref015","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"509","DOI":"10.1108\/LHT-02-2017-0044","article-title":"Who will cite you back? Reciprocal link prediction in citation networks","volume":"35","year":"2017","journal-title":"Library Hi Tech"},{"issue":"1","key":"key2022052603103460900_ref016","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"8","DOI":"10.1108\/LHT-03-2018-0042","article-title":"Correlational analysis of topic specificity and citations count of publication venues","volume":"37","year":"2019","journal-title":"Library Hi Tech"},{"key":"key2022052603103460900_ref017","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"877","DOI":"10.1007\/s11192-017-2422-y","article-title":"Reconsidering the gold open access citation advantage postulate in a multidisciplinary context: an analysis of the subject categories in the Web of Science database 2009-2014","volume":"112","year":"2017","journal-title":"Scientometrics"},{"key":"key2022052603103460900_ref018","article-title":"Citation advantage of open access articles","volume":"4","year":"2006","journal-title":"PLoS Biology"},{"key":"key2022052603103460900_ref019","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"1332","DOI":"10.1016\/j.respol.2011.05.025","article-title":"Getting cited: does open access help?","volume":"40","year":"2011","journal-title":"Research Policy"},{"key":"key2022052603103460900_ref020","first-page":"310","article-title":"The access\/impact problem and the green and gold roads to open access","volume-title":"Serials Review","year":"2004"},{"key":"key2022052603103460900_ref021","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"36","DOI":"10.1080\/00987913.2008.10765150","article-title":"The access\/impact problem and the green and gold roads to open access: an update","volume":"34","year":"2008","journal-title":"Serials Review"},{"key":"key2022052603103460900_ref022","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"733","DOI":"10.1007\/s11192-019-03144-6","article-title":"The troubles of high-profile open access megajournals","volume":"120","year":"2019","journal-title":"Scientometrics"},{"key":"key2022052603103460900_ref023","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"1033","DOI":"10.1007\/s11192-013-1101-x","article-title":"Impact of open access on citation of scholarly publications in the field of civil engineering","volume":"98","year":"2014","journal-title":"Scientometrics"},{"key":"key2022052603103460900_ref024","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"124","DOI":"10.1186\/1741-7015-10-124","article-title":"Anatomy of open access publishing: a study of longitudinal development and internal structure","volume":"10","year":"2012","journal-title":"BMC Medicine"},{"key":"key2022052603103460900_ref025","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"291","DOI":"10.1007\/s11192-018-2751-5","article-title":"Open access in ethics research: an analysis of open access availability and author self-archiving behaviour in light of journal copyright restrictions","volume":"116","year":"2018","journal-title":"Scientometrics"},{"key":"key2022052603103460900_ref026","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"50","DOI":"10.6017\/ital.v37i3.10604","article-title":"The open access citation advantage: does it exist and what does it mean for libraries?","volume":"37","year":"2018","journal-title":"Information Technology Library"},{"volume-title":"Open Access Journals in the ISI Citation Databases: Analysis of Impact Factors and Citation Patterns: A Citation Study from Thomson Scientific","year":"2004","key":"key2022052603103460900_ref027"},{"key":"key2022052603103460900_ref028","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"1130","DOI":"10.1002\/asi.21532","article-title":"Open access and Scopus: a new approach to scientific visibility from the standpoint of access","volume":"62","year":"2011","journal-title":"Journal American Society Information Science Technology"},{"key":"key2022052603103460900_ref029","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"4","DOI":"10.1002\/acm2.13140","article-title":"Global trends in open access publication and open data","volume":"21","year":"2020","journal-title":"Journal Applied Clinical Medical Physics"},{"key":"key2022052603103460900_ref030","first-page":"1","article-title":"Open access article processing charges","volume":"3","year":"2015","journal-title":"DOAJ Survey"},{"year":"2014","key":"key2022052603103460900_ref031","article-title":"The hybrid open access citation advantage: how many more cites is a $3,000 fee buying you?"},{"key":"key2022052603103460900_ref032","article-title":"Does online access promote research in developing countries? Empirical evidence from article-level data","volume":"49","year":"2020","journal-title":"Research Policy"},{"key":"key2022052603103460900_ref033","first-page":"18","article-title":"Use of open access publishing by researchers: an analysis of open access availability of research literature in the field of digital library","volume":"40","year":"2020","journal-title":"DESIDOC Journal Library Information Technology"},{"key":"key2022052603103460900_ref034","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"1963","DOI":"10.1002\/asi.20898","article-title":"The citation advantage of open-access articles","volume":"59","year":"2008","journal-title":"Journal American Sociology Information Science Technology"},{"key":"key2022052603103460900_ref035","first-page":"23","article-title":"Impact of open access models on citation metrics","volume-title":"Journal of Information Science Theory and Practice","year":"2019"},{"article-title":"New journal publishing models: an international survey of senior researchers","volume-title":"CIBER Representation Public Association International Association STM Publishers","year":"2005","key":"key2022052603103460900_ref036"},{"key":"key2022052603103460900_ref037","first-page":"141","article-title":"Open access publishing and author-pays business models: a survey of authors' knowledge and perceptions","volume":"99","year":"2006","journal-title":"Journal Royal Society Medicine"},{"key":"key2022052603103460900_ref038","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"563","DOI":"10.1007\/s11192-018-2663-4","article-title":"Sustainability of open access citation advantage: the case of Elsevier's author-pays hybrid open access journals","volume":"115","year":"2018","journal-title":"Scientometrics"},{"key":"key2022052603103460900_ref039","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"581","DOI":"10.1007\/s11192-015-1607-5","article-title":"The citation advantage of author-pays model: the case of Springer and Elsevier OA journals","volume":"104","year":"2015","journal-title":"Scientometrics"},{"year":"2013","key":"key2022052603103460900_ref040","article-title":"The making of a mandate: a regional approach to open access"},{"key":"key2022052603103460900_ref041","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"219","DOI":"10.1087\/095315104323159649","article-title":"Authors and open access publishing","volume":"17","year":"2004","journal-title":"Learned Publishing"},{"key":"key2022052603103460900_ref042","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"3","DOI":"10.1007\/s12471-017-1064-2","article-title":"Gold open access: the best of both worlds","volume":"26","year":"2018","journal-title":"Netherlands Heart Journal"},{"key":"key2022052603103460900_ref043","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"265","DOI":"10.1016\/j.joi.2012.11.009","article-title":"Factors affecting citation rates in environmental science","volume":"7","year":"2013","journal-title":"Journal Informetrics"},{"key":"key2022052603103460900_ref044","first-page":"268","article-title":"Open access is a choice","volume-title":"Zeitschrift Fur Bibliothekswesen Und Bibliographie","year":"2007"},{"year":"2009","key":"key2022052603103460900_ref045","article-title":"Hybrid OA journals: a progression or a destination?"},{"article-title":"UNIVERSITY JOURNALS. Consolidating institutional repositories in a digital, free, open access publication platform for all scholarly output","volume-title":"LIBER Quarterly","year":"2020","key":"key2022052603103460900_ref046"},{"key":"key2022052603103460900_ref047","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"1031","DOI":"10.1007\/s11192-016-1833-5","article-title":"No new evidence for a citation benefit for author-pay open access publications in the social sciences and humanities","volume":"106","year":"2016","journal-title":"Scientometrics"},{"issue":"1","key":"key2022052603103460900_ref048","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"40","DOI":"10.1108\/14684521211206953","article-title":"Self-selection and the citation advantage of open access articles","volume":"36","year":"2012","journal-title":"Online Information Review"},{"key":"key2022052603103460900_ref049","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"19","DOI":"10.1177\/0165551510389358","article-title":"Multiple open access availability and citation impact","volume":"37","year":"2011","journal-title":"Journal Information Science"}],"container-title":["Library Hi Tech"],"original-title":[],"language":"en","link":[{"URL":"https:\/\/www.emerald.com\/insight\/content\/doi\/10.1108\/LHT-05-2021-0154\/full\/xml","content-type":"application\/xml","content-version":"vor","intended-application":"text-mining"},{"URL":"https:\/\/www.emerald.com\/insight\/content\/doi\/10.1108\/LHT-05-2021-0154\/full\/html","content-type":"unspecified","content-version":"vor","intended-application":"similarity-checking"}],"deposited":{"date-parts":[[2025,7,24]],"date-time":"2025-07-24T22:14:32Z","timestamp":1753395272000},"score":1,"resource":{"primary":{"URL":"http:\/\/www.emerald.com\/lht\/article\/40\/3\/685-703\/271703"}},"subtitle":[],"short-title":[],"issued":{"date-parts":[[2021,10,11]]},"references-count":49,"journal-issue":{"issue":"3","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2021,10,11]]},"published-print":{"date-parts":[[2022,5,27]]}},"alternative-id":["10.1108\/LHT-05-2021-0154"],"URL":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1108\/lht-05-2021-0154","relation":{},"ISSN":["0737-8831"],"issn-type":[{"type":"print","value":"0737-8831"}],"subject":[],"published":{"date-parts":[[2021,10,11]]}}}