One of the indirect indicators of a researcher’s reputation in scholarly communication is her or his scholarly impact, as measured by the number of citations the researcher’s works receives. Hence, researchers’ participation in RIMSs can also be motivated by their desire to increase their citation counts or other alternative metrics of impact. Moed  suggested that sharing a publication early by posting its preprint in a preprint database such as arXiv could result in a higher citation count. Other studies (e.g., ) showed that publication read counts in RIMSs correlated with citation counts.