Chris Carroll and Andy Tattersall, Author at Social Science Space

Chris Carroll and Andy Tattersall

Chris Carroll is reader in systematic review and evidence synthesis at The School of Health and Related Research at The University of Sheffield. Andy Tattersall is an Information Specialist at The School of Health and Related Research and writes, teaches and gives talks about digital academia, technology, scholarly communications, open research, web and information science, apps, altmetrics, and social media. In particular, their applications for research, teaching, learning, knowledge management and collaboration.

Size Still Matters: Discoverability, Impact and ‘Big’ Journals

One of the proposed advantages of open access publication is that it increases the impact of academic research by making it more broadly and easily accessible. Reporting on a natural experiment on the citation impact of health research that is published in both open access and subscription journals, Chris Carroll and Andy Tattersall, suggests that subscription journals still play an important role in making research discoverable and useful and thus still have a role to play even in open publication strategies.