Yes indeed, open access journals result in higher impact factor due to better accessibility. However, the history of open access is rife with (inclusion of) predatory journals, which take short cuts in peer review and therefore some are responsible for lower quality of science.

Hi Atoyebi, Open access articles are more visible and freely accessible to information seekers hence have a tendency to be cited by more people. Contrary, researchers who fail to get the desired article from non-OA databases mostly give up for the want of payments and other formalities hence may lose the chances of being cited. still more, most of the researchers also cite such non-OA research articles only by going through their abstract, which most of the time you may find informative than indicative.

Yes indeed, open access journals result in higher impact factor due to better accessibility. However, the history of open access is rife with (inclusion of) predatory journals, which take short cuts in peer review and therefore some are responsible for lower quality of science.

Open access publications are easier to find. Trying to hunt down what database has the article, or worse yet, having to request a copy of the paper, which could take quite some time, really slows down the process of doing research. I've skipped over what are probably good papers, simply because they were a pain in the neck to find.

Share your article to the public . Share what you care .

Quality, Quantity, & Visibilityㅡall of them are important for you to become a successful scholar and get more citations. Please publish your articles in well-established open access journals such as BMJ(s).

Journal articles which are open access are freely available on the Internet and openly accessible to everyone. That makes these articles more likely to be used and cited. In contrast, articles which appear in non-open access journals are initially only visible to people at institutions which have a licence for these specific journals.

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Thanks Ramesh Pandita , Gulzar Shah , Daniel Goldman , Salem Elsheltat , Claire Su-Yeon Park , Syed Asad Ali Zaidi , Bashar Owaid for your comments.

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i think open access article has more citation than other one, because you can see and download it easily.

Non-open access journals intentionally or unintentionally discourage researchers from low income countries.