Methodologies for selecting high-impact publications for Open Access award recognition

Conference poster, 2026

We developed methodologies to identify high-impact Open Access (OA) publications for the Library Open Access Award. The analysis focuses on OA outputs from a single publication year, specifically Scopus-indexed articles, reviews, conference papers, books, and book chapters with a maximum of 20 authors and at least one corresponding author affiliated with Chalmers University of Technology. A substantial proportion of the university’s annual research output is openly available, and a large subset meets these inclusion criteria. Impact and visibility are assessed using Field-Weighted Citation Impact (FWCI) from SciVal and Altmetric Attention Scores. By capturing both citation performance and societal attention, we generate shortlists of the highest-ranked publications according to each metric, while excluding previous awardees. This replicable approach can be adapted by other institutions using comparable bibliometric and altmetric tools.