ArticleJournal of medical Internet research2006
The open access advantage.
Article in Journal of medical Internet research, 2006. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 14 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.
What it found
Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.
The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.
The trial behind it
Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.
Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.
Who cites it
14 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.
- Decoding the past and future of distant metastasis from papillary thyroid carcinoma: a bibliometric analysis from 2004 to 2023.Frontiers in oncology · 2024Pooled it
- Citation Advantage of Promoted Articles in a Cross-Publisher Distribution Platform: 36-Month Follow-up to a Randomized Controlled Trial.Journal of medical Internet research · 2021Trial
- Artificial Intelligence and Promoting Open Access in Academic Publishing.La Tunisie medicale · 2023Article
- Factors Associated With Open Access Publishing Costs in Oncology Journals: Cross-sectional Observational Study.JMIR formative research · 2023Article
- Celebrating 20 Years of Open Access and Innovation at JMIR Publications.Journal of medical Internet research · 2019Article
- The impact of the open-access status on journal indices: oncology journals.Journal of gastrointestinal oncology · 2019Article
- Clinical Endoscopy as One of Leading Journals in Gastrointestinal Endoscopy.Clinical endoscopy · 2015Review
- Publishing in open access era: focus on respiratory journals.Journal of thoracic disease · 2014Article
- Open access - is this the future of medical publishing?Croatian medical journal · 2013Article
- Can tweets predict citations? Metrics of social impact based on Twitter and correlation with traditional metrics of scientific impact.Journal of medical Internet research · 2011Article
- The impact of free access to the scientific literature: a review of recent research.Journal of the Medical Library Association : JMLA · 2011Review
- Open access: unlimited Web based literature searching.Deutsches Arzteblatt international · 2009Article
- BioLit: integrating biological literature with databases.Nucleic acids research · 2008Article
- Which journals do primary care physicians and specialists access from an online service?Journal of the Medical Library Association : JMLA · 2007Article
Corrections and comments
PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.
Authors and funding
1 author.
Funding
No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.
Abstract
A study published today in PLoS Biology provides robust evidence that open-access articles are more immediately recognized and cited than non-OA articles. This editorial provides some additional follow up data from the most recent analysis of the same cohort in April 2006, 17 to 21 months after publication. These data suggest that the citation gap between open access and non-open access papers continues to widen. I conclude with the observation that the "open access advantage" has at least three components: (1) a citation count advantage (as a metric for knowledge uptake within the scientific community), (2) an end user uptake advantage, and (3) a cross-discipline fertilization advantage. More research is needed, and JMIR is inviting research on all aspects of open access. As the advantages for publishing open access from a researchers' point of view become increasingly clear, questions around the sustainability of open access journals remain. This journal is a living example that "lean publishing" models can create successful open access journals. Open source tools which have been developed by the Public Knowledge Project at the University of British Columbia with contributions from the Epublishing & Open Access group at the Centre for Global eHealth Innovation in Toronto are an alternative to hosting journals on commercial open access publisher sites.
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Registered trials
Read under generation 80e0d062 · epoch 390. Bibliography from PubMed, PubMed Central and OpenAlex; grants from NIH RePORTER; trial links from ClinicalTrials.gov; estimates, votes and beliefs from the OpenQuestion graph.