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Open Access: The Whipping Boy for Problems in Scholarly Publishing

Overview of attention for article published in Communications of AIS, January 2015
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  • In the top 25% of all research outputs scored by Altmetric
  • One of the highest-scoring outputs from this source (#6 of 288)
  • High Attention Score compared to outputs of the same age (92nd percentile)
  • High Attention Score compared to outputs of the same age and source (86th percentile)

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1 blog
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12 X users
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4 Bluesky users

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28 Mendeley
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Article details
Title
Open Access: The Whipping Boy for Problems in Scholarly Publishing
Published in
Communications of AIS, January 2015
DOI 10.17705/1cais.03714
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Mendeley demographics

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Geographical breakdown

Geographical breakdown
Country Count As %
United States 1 4%
Unknown 27 96%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status
Readers by professional status Count As %
Librarian 6 21%
Student > Ph. D. Student 5 18%
Lecturer 3 11%
Researcher 3 11%
Professor 2 7%
Other 6 21%
Unknown 3 11%
Readers by discipline
Readers by discipline Count As %
Social Sciences 7 25%
Business, Management and Accounting 6 21%
Computer Science 5 18%
Engineering 2 7%
Philosophy 1 4%
Other 4 14%
Unknown 3 11%
Attention Score in Context

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 24 September 2025.
All research outputs
#2,614,008
of 34,376,207 outputs
Outputs from Communications of AIS
#6
of 288 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#29,044
of 409,796 outputs
Outputs of similar age from Communications of AIS
#2
of 15 outputs
Altmetric has tracked 34,376,207 research outputs across all sources so far. Compared to these this one has done particularly well and is in the 92nd percentile: it's in the top 10% of all research outputs ever tracked by Altmetric.
So far Altmetric has tracked 288 research outputs from this source. They receive a mean Attention Score of 3.6. This one has done particularly well, scoring higher than 97% of its peers.
Older research outputs will score higher simply because they've had more time to accumulate mentions. To account for age we can compare this Altmetric Attention Score to the 409,796 tracked outputs that were published within six weeks on either side of this one in any source. This one has done particularly well, scoring higher than 92% of its contemporaries.
We're also able to compare this research output to 15 others from the same source and published within six weeks on either side of this one. This one has done well, scoring higher than 86% of its contemporaries.