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| Title |
Anatomy of open access publishing: a study of longitudinal development and internal structure
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|---|---|
| Published in |
BMC Medicine, October 2012
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| DOI | 10.1186/1741-7015-10-124 |
| Pubmed ID | |
| Authors |
Mikael Laakso, Bo-Christer Björk |
| Abstract |
Open access (OA) is a revolutionary way of providing access to the scholarly journal literature made possible by the Internet. The primary aim of this study was to measure the volume of scientific articles published in full immediate OA journals from 2000 to 2011, while observing longitudinal internal shifts in the structure of OA publishing concerning revenue models, publisher types and relative distribution among scientific disciplines. The secondary aim was to measure the share of OA articles of all journal articles, including articles made OA by publishers with a delay and individual author-paid OA articles in subscription journals (hybrid OA), as these subsets of OA publishing have mostly been ignored in previous studies. |
X Demographics
The data shown below were collected from the profiles of 268 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 | 42 | 16% |
| Spain | 30 | 11% |
| United States | 17 | 6% |
| Germany | 12 | 4% |
| France | 10 | 4% |
| Canada | 9 | 3% |
| Netherlands | 6 | 2% |
| Sweden | 5 | 2% |
| South Africa | 3 | 1% |
| Other | 36 | 13% |
| Unknown | 98 | 37% |
Demographic breakdown
| Type | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Members of the public | 201 | 75% |
| Scientists | 33 | 12% |
| Science communicators (journalists, bloggers, editors) | 20 | 7% |
| Practitioners (doctors, other healthcare professionals) | 14 | 5% |
Mendeley readers
The data shown below were compiled from readership statistics for 346 Mendeley readers of this research output. Click here to see the associated Mendeley record.
Geographical breakdown
| Country | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| United States | 17 | 5% |
| Germany | 7 | 2% |
| Netherlands | 6 | 2% |
| Spain | 6 | 2% |
| Canada | 5 | 1% |
| United Kingdom | 5 | 1% |
| Switzerland | 4 | 1% |
| Portugal | 3 | <1% |
| Brazil | 3 | <1% |
| Other | 25 | 7% |
| Unknown | 265 | 77% |
Demographic breakdown
| Readers by professional status | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Librarian | 82 | 24% |
| Researcher | 51 | 15% |
| Student > Master | 41 | 12% |
| Student > Ph. D. Student | 36 | 10% |
| Other | 31 | 9% |
| Other | 90 | 26% |
| Unknown | 15 | 4% |
| Readers by discipline | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Social Sciences | 102 | 29% |
| Computer Science | 57 | 16% |
| Medicine and Dentistry | 30 | 9% |
| Arts and Humanities | 29 | 8% |
| Agricultural and Biological Sciences | 28 | 8% |
| Other | 71 | 21% |
| Unknown | 29 | 8% |
Attention Score in Context
This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 396. 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 06 February 2024.
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#77,599
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Outputs from BMC Medicine
#82
of 4,074 outputs
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#316
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#1
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