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Online distribution channel increases article usage on Mendeley: a randomized controlled trial.

Paul Kudlow, Matthew Cockerill, Danielle Toccalino, Devin Bissky Dziadyk, Alan Rutledge, Aviv Shachak, Roger S McIntyre, Arun Ravindran, Gunther Eysenbach

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Article in Scientometrics. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 2 papers.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

9 authors.

Paul KudlowDepartment of Psychiatry, Clinician-Investigator Program, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON Canada.ORCID 0000-0003-2704-4989
Matthew CockerillData Science Team, TrendMD Inc., MaRS Discovery District, West Tower, 661 University Avenue, #465, Toronto, M5G 1M1 ON Canada.
Danielle ToccalinoData Science Team, TrendMD Inc., MaRS Discovery District, West Tower, 661 University Avenue, #465, Toronto, M5G 1M1 ON Canada.
Devin Bissky DziadykData Science Team, TrendMD Inc., MaRS Discovery District, West Tower, 661 University Avenue, #465, Toronto, M5G 1M1 ON Canada.
Alan RutledgeData Science Team, TrendMD Inc., MaRS Discovery District, West Tower, 661 University Avenue, #465, Toronto, M5G 1M1 ON Canada.ORCID 0000-0001-8884-001X
Aviv ShachakInstitute of Health Policy, Management and Evaluation, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON Canada.ORCID 0000-0002-1166-609X
Roger S McIntyreUniversity of Toronto, Toronto, ON Canada.
Arun RavindranCentre for Addiction and Mental Health, Toronto, ON Canada.
Gunther EysenbachData Science Team, TrendMD Inc., MaRS Discovery District, West Tower, 661 University Avenue, #465, Toronto, M5G 1M1 ON Canada.ORCID 0000-0001-6479-5330

Funding

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Prior research shows that article reader counts (i.e. saves) on the online reference manager, Mendeley, correlate to future citations. There are currently no evidenced-based distribution strategies that have been shown to increase article saves on Mendeley. We conducted a 4-week randomized controlled trial to examine how promotion of article links in a novel online cross-publisher distribution channel (TrendMD) affect article saves on Mendeley. Four hundred articles published in the

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Academic journalsArticle usageBibliometricsImpactKnowledge disseminationMendeleyRandomized controlled trialTrendMD

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PMID28804178
PMCPMC5533832

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