Measuring the citation advantage of openly licensed datasets
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Matching on discipline, venue and author seniority, we estimate the citation premium attributable to open data deposit and find it concentrated in the first thirty months. The analysis draws on a corpus assembled from institutional repositories, preprint servers and publisher metadata feeds, and the full dataset together with the code needed to reproduce every figure is deposited under a permissive licence. Limitations, including coverage gaps in non-English sources, are set out in the discussion.
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