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‘Predatory’ open access: a longitudinal study of article volumes and market characteristics

Overview of attention for article published in BMC Medicine, October 2015
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  • In the top 5% of all research outputs scored by Altmetric
  • Among the highest-scoring outputs from this source (#37 of 4,054)
  • High Attention Score compared to outputs of the same age (99th percentile)
  • High Attention Score compared to outputs of the same age and source (98th percentile)

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Title
‘Predatory’ open access: a longitudinal study of article volumes and market characteristics
Published in
BMC Medicine, October 2015
DOI 10.1186/s12916-015-0469-2
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Authors

Cenyu Shen, Bo-Christer Björk

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Geographical breakdown

Country Count As %
United States 6 <1%
Spain 5 <1%
Germany 4 <1%
United Kingdom 4 <1%
Russia 2 <1%
Croatia 2 <1%
Sweden 2 <1%
Brazil 1 <1%
North Macedonia 1 <1%
Other 11 2%
Unknown 578 94%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Librarian 125 20%
Researcher 81 13%
Other 54 9%
Student > Ph. D. Student 49 8%
Student > Master 46 7%
Other 159 26%
Unknown 102 17%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Social Sciences 127 21%
Medicine and Dentistry 89 14%
Computer Science 48 8%
Agricultural and Biological Sciences 39 6%
Arts and Humanities 31 5%
Other 151 25%
Unknown 131 21%
Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 765. 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 26 March 2024.
All research outputs
#25,678
of 25,571,620 outputs
Outputs from BMC Medicine
#37
of 4,054 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#227
of 287,337 outputs
Outputs of similar age from BMC Medicine
#2
of 90 outputs
Altmetric has tracked 25,571,620 research outputs across all sources so far. Compared to these this one has done particularly well and is in the 99th percentile: it's in the top 5% of all research outputs ever tracked by Altmetric.
So far Altmetric has tracked 4,054 research outputs from this source. They typically receive a lot more attention than average, with a mean Attention Score of 45.9. This one has done particularly well, scoring higher than 99% of its peers.
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