Not exact matches
There is no indication that other editors would have violated
relevant ethical rules, and there is no evidence that a group of editors would have formed a «cartel» to boost
citations to their
journals.
Another
relevant point to be made is that open access has been shown to increase readership and
citations for comparable work, giving open access
journals, in general, an advantage by this measure.
Data sources: CINAHL, Cochrane, EMBASE, ISI, MEDLINE, PsycINFO were searched up to April 2011, supplemented by reference list searches of the included studies and
relevant systematic reviews, hand searching 45 selected
journals, tracking
citations of included studies in Google Scholar and searching trial registers.