Bisma - one would imagine so purely due to the pragmatics of 'access' and availability. True open access means that anyone with internet capability can access full text research articles. That said, databases such as PubMed, offer many full article access options - but are not open access.

Not all researchers in low income countries are poor. As a result of this, it's difficult to prove that by mere assumptions. Research need to be carry out on that before making any conclusions.

Hi,

maybe this paper could help in this question:

Countries positioning in open access journals system: An investigation of citation distribution patterns By: Sotudeh, Hajar; Horri, Abbas SCIENTOMETRICS Volume: 81 Issue: 1 Pages: 7-31 Published: OCT 2009

New Zealand is a relatively well off country, but I often find that my institution doesn't always have access to the articles that I want to read. I can't imagine it being much better in countries with lower GDPs etc, where there probably isn't as much funding in the research environments.

I rely a lot on alternatives to work around the paywalls in place, looking at sites like RG and also arXiv. More recently, I've started including Zenodo in my searches. I will often contact researchers directly for information around their research, including pre-camera ready copies of their papers.

For some people - and I make no value judgement nor expression of my own practices - but SciHub is increasing an option for many.

Open access journal papers are easily available for reference and citation for the all researchers of the world. Further sites like SCI-HUB ,RG and facebook group also some how help in providing papers with limited access

Can be an interesting research topic

Hello Bisma S Khan

I think that at the level of the elite of researchers from developing countries, the priority in the use of Journals is in relevance rather than in access.

Regards.

Thank you Dean Whitehead , Bahtilla Marinette , Avishag Gordon , and Andy Connor for your insightful answers.

Thank you Kamran Ali , Nirmala S.V.S.G

It happens because these authors publish in common journals (with how today one says - "zero impact factors") that do not restrict their rights.

it is not always the story because many good journals offer free access in third world countries.

Authors from low income countries are more likely to cite open access because one cannot pay for all the reviews to be written in thesis and also many good journals offer free access.

As others have noted, one would hypothesize that open access (OA) articles have a higher propensity for citations than non open access (non-OA). In theory, the ease of accessibility should have an impact on readership and subsequently on inclusion as a reference for research publications. I would expect this to be true regardless of whether authors originate from low income countries.

Check out this article:

Zhang, Y. (2007). The Effect of Open Access on Citation Impact: A Comparison Study Based on Web Citation Analysis. Libri, 56(3), pp. 145-156. Retrieved 15 Jun. 2019, from doi:10.1515/LIBR.2006.145

Also, available for download:

http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/download?doi=10.1.1.103.9094&rep=rep1&type=pdf

Thank you Hamed Bazaz for insightful answer abe helping materia.

No Indian libraries are capable to subscribe all costly journals. open access journals are freely accessible this means they are not qualitative this consideration is wrong. Large numbers good authors are contributing for open access journals under creative commons licenses.

Its not always the fact..first references and citation are done from the base articles to the maximum..like most of references taken directly from the source articles that we keep for writing..Then come the seelection to submit in particular journal..so the old reference of that journal is used ..If that is open it will better suite for referencing..

Reason is low income