INTRODUCTION
This paper offers a brief overview of prior research on the benefits of open access. We then provide our data and findings. We conclude with suggestions and details on the SSRN submission process and analyze how Google may handle the unique way SSRN provides access to PDFs. We recently documented several common characteristics of well-cited papers. Our data indicated that unexpected factors – title length, number of pages, and so on – may play a role in citations. Here we use the same data set to explore the impact of another characteristic: open access. Specifically, the impact on citations to the journal-published article from posting a version of an article to SSRN. To do that, we reviewed whether or not 1,300 journal-published articles had a corresponding version on SSRN …
Rob Wiley and Melanie Kanpp, SSRN’s Impact on Citations to Legal Scholarship and How to Maximize It, 45 University of Arkansas at Little Rock Law Review 475 (2023).
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