Post on 20-Jun-2020
Open access & preprints
Erik Driessen@erikwdriessen
www.erikdriessen.com
”it’s a non-profit Open Access journal with free manuscript submission and free manuscript download…”
”…is highly visible thanks to its unrestricted online access policy”
Over 180,000 downloads in 2018
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2014 2015 2016 2017 2018
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OPEN ACCESS: ReachMaggio 2018 Academic Medicine
Developing world, Journalists, non-academics, policy makers, public, …
OPEN ACCESS: ControlMaggio 2018 Academic Medicine
Use for websites, education; and disallowing commercial use
OPEN ACCESS: ImpactMaggio 2018 Academic Medicine
RCT: 89% > downloads; 23% > visitors
Citation advantage and social media attention
OPEN ACCESS: ControversiesMaggio 2018 Academic Medicine
Quality
Predatory
Free
Preprints
”it’s in the top 5% of all research outputs ever tracked by Altmetric”