Do Open Access Dental Articles Enjoy Higher Altmetric Attention Scores, Twitter, Facebook, News, Wikipedia, Blog mentions, Mendeley Readers and Citations?

Authors

Jafar Kolahi, Dental Hypotheses
Saber Khazaei, Isfahan University of Medical Sciences
David G. Dunning, University of Nebraska Medical CenterFollow
Edward F. Rossomando, University of Connecticut

Document Type

Article

Journal Title

Dental Hypotheses

Publication Date

2020

Volume

11

Abstract

In order to access articles published in conventional (non-open access) journals, scientists must utilize tools such as subscriptions, site licenses or pay-per-view charges. In contrast, open access articles can be accessed without financial, legal or technical barriers. A large-scale study estimated that at least 28% of the academic literature is open access (19 million in total) and that this percentage is growing.^[1] A recent survey showed an open access rate in field of dentistry at 45.8%.^[2] It has been demonstrated that open access articles had 8% to 40% higher citations compared to non-open access articles; this has been termed, “open access citation advantage”.^[3],[4],[5]

DOI Link

10.4103/denthyp.denthyp_17_20

Creative Commons License

This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-Share Alike 4.0 International License.

Recommended Citation

Kolahi, Jafar; Khazaei, Saber; Dunning, David G.; and Rossomando, Edward F., "Do Open Access Dental Articles Enjoy Higher Altmetric Attention Scores, Twitter, Facebook, News, Wikipedia, Blog mentions, Mendeley Readers and Citations?" (2020). Journal Articles: College of Dentistry. 32.
https://digitalcommons.unmc.edu/cod_articles/32