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| Title |
Open access to scientific articles: a review of benefits and challenges
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|---|---|
| Published in |
Internal and Emergency Medicine, January 2017
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| DOI | 10.1007/s11739-017-1603-2 |
| Pubmed ID | |
| Authors |
Bo-Christer Björk |
| Abstract |
The Internet has fundamentally changed the publishing of scholarly peer reviewed journals, and the way readers find and access articles. Digital access is nowadays the norm, in particular for researchers. The Internet has enabled a totally new business model, Open Access (OA), in which an article is openly available in full text for anyone with Internet access. This article reviews the different options to achieve this, whether by journals changing their revenue structures from subscription to publishing charges, or authors utilizing a number of options for posting OA versions of article manuscripts in repositories. It also discusses the regrettable emergence of "predatory" publishers, who spam academics, and make money by promising them rapid publication with only the semblance of peer review. The situation is further discussed from the viewpoints of different stakeholders, including academics as authors and readers, practicing physicians and the general public. |
X Demographics
The data shown below were collected from the profiles of 19 X users who shared this research output. Click here to find out more about how the information was compiled.
Geographical breakdown
| Country | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| United Kingdom | 4 | 21% |
| Germany | 2 | 11% |
| Switzerland | 1 | 5% |
| Australia | 1 | 5% |
| United States | 1 | 5% |
| Unknown | 10 | 53% |
Demographic breakdown
| Type | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Members of the public | 11 | 58% |
| Scientists | 4 | 21% |
| Science communicators (journalists, bloggers, editors) | 2 | 11% |
| Practitioners (doctors, other healthcare professionals) | 2 | 11% |
Mendeley readers
The data shown below were compiled from readership statistics for 160 Mendeley readers of this research output. Click here to see the associated Mendeley record.
Geographical breakdown
| Country | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Spain | 1 | <1% |
| Ukraine | 1 | <1% |
| Canada | 1 | <1% |
| Unknown | 157 | 98% |
Demographic breakdown
| Readers by professional status | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Student > Ph. D. Student | 26 | 16% |
| Librarian | 24 | 15% |
| Student > Master | 20 | 13% |
| Researcher | 17 | 11% |
| Other | 9 | 6% |
| Other | 35 | 22% |
| Unknown | 29 | 18% |
| Readers by discipline | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Social Sciences | 33 | 21% |
| Computer Science | 21 | 13% |
| Business, Management and Accounting | 11 | 7% |
| Medicine and Dentistry | 11 | 7% |
| Arts and Humanities | 11 | 7% |
| Other | 42 | 26% |
| Unknown | 31 | 19% |
Attention Score in Context
This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 18. 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 28 February 2017.
All research outputs
#1,995,766
of 24,903,209 outputs
Outputs from Internal and Emergency Medicine
#81
of 1,069 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#41,051
of 428,822 outputs
Outputs of similar age from Internal and Emergency Medicine
#4
of 19 outputs
Altmetric has tracked 24,903,209 research outputs across all sources so far. Compared to these this one has done particularly well and is in the 91st percentile: it's in the top 10% of all research outputs ever tracked by Altmetric.
So far Altmetric has tracked 1,069 research outputs from this source. They typically receive a lot more attention than average, with a mean Attention Score of 10.7. This one has done particularly well, scoring higher than 92% of its peers.
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