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Is Biblioleaks Inevitable?

Overview of attention for article published in Journal of Medical Internet Research, April 2014
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Title
Is Biblioleaks Inevitable?
Published in
Journal of Medical Internet Research, April 2014
DOI 10.2196/jmir.3331
Pubmed ID
Authors

Adam G Dunn, Enrico Coiera, Kenneth D Mandl

Abstract

In 2014, the vast majority of published biomedical research is still hidden behind paywalls rather than open access. For more than a decade, similar restrictions over other digitally available content have engendered illegal activity. Music file sharing became rampant in the late 1990s as communities formed around new ways to share. The frequency and scale of cyber-attacks against commercial and government interests has increased dramatically. Massive troves of classified government documents have become public through the actions of a few. Yet we have not seen significant growth in the illegal sharing of peer-reviewed academic articles. Should we truly expect that biomedical publishing is somehow at less risk than other content-generating industries? What of the larger threat--a "Biblioleaks" event--a database breach and public leak of the substantial archives of biomedical literature? As the expectation that all research should be available to everyone becomes the norm for a younger generation of researchers and the broader community, the motivations for such a leak are likely to grow. We explore the feasibility and consequences of a Biblioleaks event for researchers, journals, publishers, and the broader communities of doctors and the patients they serve.

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Geographical breakdown

Country Count As %
United Kingdom 1 2%
Netherlands 1 2%
Unknown 41 95%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Ph. D. Student 8 19%
Librarian 6 14%
Student > Master 6 14%
Student > Doctoral Student 5 12%
Student > Bachelor 3 7%
Other 10 23%
Unknown 5 12%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Social Sciences 11 26%
Medicine and Dentistry 9 21%
Nursing and Health Professions 3 7%
Computer Science 3 7%
Arts and Humanities 2 5%
Other 8 19%
Unknown 7 16%
Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 126. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 29 May 2023.
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#332,302
of 25,401,784 outputs
Outputs from Journal of Medical Internet Research
#204
of 7,875 outputs
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#2,705
of 241,510 outputs
Outputs of similar age from Journal of Medical Internet Research
#1
of 69 outputs
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