The effect of open access on research quality

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Highlights：

• Top journals become more lenient under APC-based open access.

• Open access leads to less heterogeneity across journals in terms of quality.

• Evaluation of researchers independent of journal metrics lowers quality of journals.

摘要

•Top journals become more lenient under APC-based open access.•Open access leads to less heterogeneity across journals in terms of quality.•Evaluation of researchers independent of journal metrics lowers quality of journals.

论文关键词：Open access,Publishing,Research quality,Evaluation of researchers

论文评审过程：Received 27 November 2018, Revised 27 March 2019, Accepted 3 April 2019, Available online 13 April 2019, Version of Record 13 April 2019.

论文官网地址：https://doi.org/10.1016/j.joi.2019.04.001