Pronetos

There has been conflicting evidence over the years over whether Open Access articles have a citation advantage over traditional lock-’em-away-in-private-database articles run by traditional publishers. But the evidence seems to be mounting that Open Access offers a distinct advantage, and the world seems to be taking note.

From the post announcing the award:

Dr. Michael Norris has been named as a Highly Commended Award winner of the 2008 Emerald/EFMD Outstanding Doctoral Research Award in the Information Science category for his doctoral thesis ‘The citation advantage of open access articles’.
These prestigious awards have now been running for four years and
attract submissions of an exceptionally high quality from across the
globe in all subject areas.

Congratulations to Dr. Norris and the OA community as a whole for continuing to create content that is getting recognized.