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ArticleNeuropsychopharmacology : official publication of the American College of Neuropsychopharmacology2024

Effects of open access publishing on article metrics in Neuropsychopharmacology.

Briana K Chen, Taylor Custis, Lisa M Monteggia, Tony P George

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Article in Neuropsychopharmacology : official publication of the American College of Neuropsychopharmacology, 2024. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 5 papers.

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5citing papers in PubMed
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1 · What the graph read from 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.

2 · The registry

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.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

5 citing papers in PubMed.

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  2. Optimizing social media initiatives to promote Neuropsychopharmacology (NPP) publications.Neuropsychopharmacology : official publication of the American College of Neuropsychopharmacology · 2025
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

4 authors.

Briana K ChenDepartment of Psychiatry, Columbia University Irving Medical Center (CUIMC), New York, NY, 10032, USA. bkc2120@cumc.columbia.edu.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0003-1982-1389
Taylor CustisSpringer Nature, New York, NY, 10004, USA.
Lisa M MonteggiaDepartment of Pharmacology and the Vanderbilt Brain Institute, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN, 37240, USA.
Tony P GeorgeAddictions Division, Centre for Addiction and Mental Health (CAMH), and Department of Psychiatry, Temerty Faculty of Medicine, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, M6J 1H4, Canada.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0003-1645-9767

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Neuropsychopharmacology (NPP) offers the option to publish articles in different tiers of an open access (OA) publishing system: Green, Bronze, or Hybrid. Green articles follow a standard access (SA) subscription model, in which readers must pay a subscription fee to access article content on the publisher's website. Bronze articles are selected at the publisher's discretion and offer free availability to readers at the same article processing charge (APC) as Green articles. Hybrid articles are fully OA, but authors pay an increased APC to ensure public access. Here, we aimed to determine whether publishing tier affect the impact and reach of scientific articles in NPP. A sample of 6000 articles published between 2001-2021 were chosen for the analysis. Articles were separated by article type and publication year. Citation counts and Altmetric scores were compared between the three tiers. Bronze articles received significantly more citations than Green and Hybrid articles overall. However, when analyzed by year, Bronze and Hybrid articles received comparable citation counts within the past decade. Altmetric scores were comparable between all tiers, although this effect varied by year. Our findings indicate that free availability of article content on the publisher's website is associated with an increase in citations of NPP articles but may only provide a moderate boost in Altmetric score. Overall, our results suggest that easily accessible article content is most often cited by readers, but that the higher APCs of Hybrid tier publishing may not guarantee increased scholarly or social impact.

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PMID38212443
PMCPMC10876690

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Registered trials

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