Advanced Materials Research Impact Factor 2024-2025 - ResearchHelpDesk - Advanced Materials Research is a peer-reviewed journal that covers all aspects of theoretical and practical research of materials science: synthesis, analysis of properties, technologies of materials processing and their use in modern manufacturing. Advanced Materials Research is one of the largest periodicals in the field of materials engineering. Advanced Materials Research specializes in the publication of thematically complete volumes from international conference proceedings and complete special topic volumes. We do not publish stand-alone papers by individual authors. Authors retain the right to publish an extended and significantly updated version in another periodical. Presented, Distributed and Abstracted/Indexed in: SCImago Journal & Country Rank (SJR), Inspec (IET, Institution of Engineering Technology) , Google Scholar, EVISA, GeoRef, Cambridge Scientific Abstracts (CSA), ProQuest, Chemical Abstracts Service (CAS), Ulrichsweb, EBSCO Discovery Service, CiteSeerX, Zetoc, Index Copernicus Journals Master List, WorldCat (OCLC).

BackgroundThere is increasing interest to make primary data from published research publicly available. We aimed to assess the current status of making research data available in highly-cited journals across the scientific literature. Methods and ResultsWe reviewed the first 10 original research papers of 2009 published in the 50 original research journals with the highest impact factor. For each journal we documented the policies related to public availability and sharing of data. Of the 50 journals, 44 (88%) had a statement in their instructions to authors related to public availability and sharing of data. However, there was wide variation in journal requirements, ranging from requiring the sharing of all primary data related to the research to just including a statement in the published manuscript that data can be available on request. Of the 500 assessed papers, 149 (30%) were not subject to any data availability policy. Of the remaining 351 papers that were covered by some data availability policy, 208 papers (59%) did not fully adhere to the data availability instructions of the journals they were published in, most commonly (73%) by not publicly depositing microarray data. The other 143 papers that adhered to the data availability instructions did so by publicly depositing only the specific data type as required, making a statement of willingness to share, or actually sharing all the primary data. Overall, only 47 papers (9%) deposited full primary raw data online. None of the 149 papers not subject to data availability policies made their full primary data publicly available. ConclusionA substantial proportion of original research papers published in high-impact journals are either not subject to any data availability policies, or do not adhere to the data availability instructions in their respective journals. This empiric evaluation highlights opportunities for improvement.

European journal of research methods for the behavioral and social sciences Impact Factor 2024-2025 - ResearchHelpDesk - Methodology is the successor of the two journals Metodologia de las Ciencias del Comportamiento and Methods of Psychological Research-Online (MPR-Online). Methodology is the official organ of the European Association of Methodology (EAM), a union of methodologists working in different areas of the social and behavioral sciences (e.g., psychology, sociology, economics, educational and political sciences). The journal provides a platform for interdisciplinary exchange of methodological research and applications in the different fields, including new methodological approaches, review articles, software information, and instructional papers that can be used in teaching. Three main disciplines are covered: data analysis, research methodology, and psychometrics. The articles published in the journal are not only accessible to methodologists but also to more applied researchers in the various disciplines. Abstract & indexing Social Sciences Citation Index (SSCI), Current Contents/Social & Behavioral Sciences (CC/S&BS) (since 2009), PsycINFO, PSYNDEX, ERIH and Scopus.

Academic journals indicators developed from the information contained in the Scopus database (Elsevier B.V.). These indicators can be used to assess and analyze scientific domains.

How to quantify the impact of a researcher’s or an institution’s body of work is a matter of increasing importance to scientists, funding agencies, and hiring committees. The use of bibliometric indicators, such as the h-index or the Journal Impact Factor, have become widespread despite their known limitations. We argue that most existing bibliometric indicators are inconsistent, biased, and, worst of all, susceptible to manipulation. Here, we pursue a principled approach to the development of an indicator to quantify the scientific impact of both individual researchers and research institutions grounded on the functional form of the distribution of the asymptotic number of citations. We validate our approach using the publication records of 1,283 researchers from seven scientific and engineering disciplines and the chemistry departments at the 106 U.S. research institutions classified as “very high research activity”. Our approach has three distinct advantages. First, it accurately captures the overall scientific impact of researchers at all career stages, as measured by asymptotic citation counts. Second, unlike other measures, our indicator is resistant to manipulation and rewards publication quality over quantity. Third, our approach captures the time-evolution of the scientific impact of research institutions.

International Journal of Contemporary Medical Research Impact Factor 2024-2025 - ResearchHelpDesk - International Journal of Contemporary Medical Research - IJCMR, an official publication of International Society for Contemporary Medical Research (Registered under Government of India, Society Registration Act No - 21, 1860), is a peer reviewed, international, print and online, open access journal with MONTHLY (since January, 2016) publication. It is a multidisciplinary journal to provide a forum for the presentation and criticism of original, innovative and thought provocative ideas in medical and allied specialties. IJCMR publishes new, challenging and radical ideas, so long as they are coherent and clearly expressed. The types of article accepted include original articles, review articles, case reports, and letters to the editor. Clinical microbiology relevant immunology, pathophysiology, genetics, epidemiological, and genomics studies are also welcome. International Journal of Contemporary Medical Research is an internationally targeted official publication. All articles have to be original articles that have not been published elsewhere or are being considered for publication in other journals. All articles submitted will be peer reviewed by experts. Receipt of the manuscript will be acknowledged by email. Every effort will be made to complete the review process within 2 weeks and communicated to the corresponding author. Papers should be submitted to ijcmr.journal@gmail.com. The Editorial board will strive for the quality of the journal and will also index the journal in various indexing bodies and the information will be updated on the journal website from time to time. We welcome all your submissions. I hope you will consider IJCMR for your next submission. Periodicity of the journal - Quarterly (Since inception to 2015 June (Volume 2; Issue 2) Bimonthly (Since 2015 July (Volume 2; Issue 3)) Monthly (Since January 2016 (Volume 3; Issue 1)) Scope of Journal The journal covers all aspects of medical sciences from genes to humans. Articles reporting clinical observations, experimental studies and theoretical concepts are all welcome, and especially welcome high quality review articles from distinguished authors, and original articles reporting new findings in medical and allied sciences. The journal covers technical and clinical studies related to health, ethical and social issues in the fields of Science and allied specialties. Articles with clinical interest and implications will be given preference. Journal editors, welcome thought provoking papers on areas listed above. Decisions about papers will be communicated to authors within 3 weeks of submission. IJCMR publishes original research work that contributes significantly to further the scientific knowledge and research in Medical, Dental, Pharmaceutical Sciences etc.. and aims to provide a platform to researchers to publish their articles. It comprises peer- reviewed articles as its core material which includes original research papers, case reports and review articles as well. We encourage the submission of manuscripts that cross disciplines and also studies that address universal problems of human health. Fields Anesthesiology, Anatomy, Animal Research, Ayurveda, Sidha & Unani (All Branches) Biochemistry, Biotechnology, Cardiology, Community, Dermatology, Dentistry (All Branches), Education, Emergency Medicine, Endocrinology, Ethics, Ear Nose and Throat, Forensic, Gastroenterology, Genetics, Haematology, Health Management and Policy, Homeopathy, Immunology and Infectious Diseases, Intensive Care, Internal Medicine, Microbiology, Health Management and Policy, Immunology and Infectious Diseases, Intensive Care, Internal Medicine, Microbiology, Nephrology / Renal, Neurology and Neuro-Surgery, Nutrition, Oncology, Orthopaedics, Ophthalmology, Obstetrics and Gynaecology, Paediatrics and Neonatology, Pharmacology, Pharmacy (All branches) Physiology, Pathology, Plastic Surgery, Psychiatry/Mental Health, Rehabilitation, Radiology, Statistics, Surgery, Yoga and alternative therapies.

Objective: To determine the top 100-ranked (by impact factor) clinical journals' policies toward publishing research previously published on preprint servers (preprints).

Design: Cross sectional. Main outcome measures: Editorial guidelines toward preprints, journal rank by impact factor.

Results: 86 (86%) of the journals examined will consider papers previously published as preprints (preprints), 13 (13%) determine their decision on a case-by-case basis, and 1 (1%) does not allow preprints.

Conclusions: We found wide acceptance of publishing preprints in the clinical research community, although researchers may still face uncertainty that their preprints will be accepted by all of their target journals.

International Dental Journal of Student Research Impact Factor 2024-2025 - ResearchHelpDesk - International Dental Journal of Student Research is a quarterly published journal, one of the unique and advanced International journal solely made by and for students of the dental field whose role in the dental profession is now being brought to greater heights. It provides a platform for the dental students to publish their scientific articles as well as read specialized articles written by their counterparts from other parts of the globe. International Dental Journal of Student Research (IDJSR) is an online/print interactive open-access journal for the communication of all peer-reviewed scientific and dental research. We have an acclaimed reviewer's panel for reviewing all the articles and suggesting the necessary corrections before any article is up for publishing. International Dental Journal of Student Research (IDJSR) applies the Creative Commons Attribution License (CCAL) to all works we publish. Under the CCAL, authors retain ownership of the copyright for their article, but they allow anyone to download, reuse, reprint, modify, distribute, and/or copy articles from the IDJSR journal, as long as the original authors and sources are cited. No permission is required from the authors or the publishers. Articles based on dental science and technology, dental education and ethics, are considered for publication in IDJSR, however, the acceptance and rejection criteria are subject to modification. To submit an article or to discuss an article that you are working on, feel free to contact the members of the editorial board at editor.idjsr@gmail.com. Before submission of an article, please go through thed author guidelines. The frequency of the journal is quarterly per annum which is sufficient for an author to get his work published even after the delay at the editor’s desk and in the reviewing processes along with interaction with the reviewer's panel. The International Dental Journal of Student Research (IDJSR) is a non-profit organization of young scientists and budding dentists committed to making the world's scientific and medical literature a freely available public resource. Indexing Information: Index Copernicus, Google Scholar, Crossref etc.

The journals’ author guidelines and/or editorial policies were examined on whether they take a stance with regard to the availability of the underlying data of the submitted article. The mere explicated possibility of providing supplementary material along with the submitted article was not considered as a research data policy in the present study. Furthermore, the present article excluded source codes or algorithms from the scope of the paper and thus policies related to them are not included in the analysis of the present article.

For selection of journals within the field of neurosciences, Clarivate Analytics’ InCites Journal Citation Reports database was searched using categories of neurosciences and neuroimaging. From the results, journals with the 40 highest Impact Factor (for the year 2017) indicators were extracted for scrutiny of research data policies. Respectively, the selection journals within the field of physics was created by performing a similar search with the categories of physics, applied; physics, atomic, molecular & chemical; physics, condensed matter; physics, fluids & plasmas; physics, mathematical; physics, multidisciplinary; physics, nuclear and physics, particles & fields. From the results, journals with the 40 highest Impact Factor indicators were again extracted for scrutiny. Similarly, the 40 journals representing the field of operations research were extracted by using the search category of operations research and management.

Journal-specific data policies were sought from journal specific websites providing journal specific author guidelines or editorial policies. Within the present study, the examination of journal data policies was done in May 2019. The primary data source was journal-specific author guidelines. If journal guidelines explicitly linked to the publisher’s general policy with regard to research data, these were used in the analyses of the present article. If journal-specific research data policy, or lack of, was inconsistent with the publisher’s general policies, the journal-specific policies and guidelines were prioritized and used in the present article’s data. If journals’ author guidelines were not openly available online due to, e.g., accepting submissions on an invite-only basis, the journal was not included in the data of the present article. Also journals that exclusively publish review articles were excluded and replaced with the journal having the next highest Impact Factor indicator so that each set representing the three field of sciences consisted of 40 journals. The final data thus consisted of 120 journals in total.

‘Public deposition’ refers to a scenario where researcher deposits data to a public repository and thus gives the administrative role of the data to the receiving repository. ‘Scientific sharing’ refers to a scenario where researcher administers his or her data locally and by request provides it to interested reader. Note that none of the journals examined in the present article required that all data types underlying a submitted work should be deposited into a public data repositories. However, some journals required public deposition of data of specific types. Within the journal research data policies examined in the present article, these data types are well presented by the Springer Nature policy on “Availability of data, materials, code and protocols” (Springer Nature, 2018), that is, DNA and RNA data; protein sequences and DNA and RNA sequencing data; genetic polymorphisms data; linked phenotype and genotype data; gene expression microarray data; proteomics data; macromolecular structures and crystallographic data for small molecules. Furthermore, the registration of clinical trials in a public repository was also considered as a data type in this study. The term specific data types used in the custom coding framework of the present study thus refers to both life sciences data and public registration of clinical trials. These data types have community-endorsed public repositories where deposition was most often mandated within the journals’ research data policies.

The term ‘location’ refers to whether the journal’s data policy provides suggestions or requirements for the repositories or services used to share the underlying data of the submitted works. A mere general reference to ‘public repositories’ was not considered a location suggestion, but only references to individual repositories and services. The category of ‘immediate release of data’ examines whether the journals’ research data policy addresses the timing of publication of the underlying data of submitted works. Note that even though the journals may only encourage public deposition of the data, the editorial processes could be set up so that it leads to either publication of the research data or the research data metadata in conjunction to publishing of the submitted work.

Background This bibliometric analysis examines the top 50 most-cited articles on COVID-19 complications, offering insights into the multifaceted impact of the virus. Since its emergence in Wuhan in December 2019, COVID-19 has evolved into a global health crisis, with over 770 million confirmed cases and 6.9 million deaths as of September 2023. Initially recognized as a respiratory illness causing pneumonia and ARDS, its diverse complications extend to cardiovascular, gastrointestinal, renal, hematological, neurological, endocrinological, ophthalmological, hepatobiliary, and dermatological systems. Methods Identifying the top 50 articles from a pool of 5940 in Scopus, the analysis spans November 2019 to July 2021, employing terms related to COVID-19 and complications. Rigorous review criteria excluded non-relevant studies, basic science research, and animal models. The authors independently reviewed articles, considering factors like title, citations, publication year, journal, impact fa..., A bibliometric analysis of the most cited articles about COVID-19 complications was conducted in July 2021 using all journals indexed in Elsevier’s Scopus and Thomas Reuter’s Web of Science from November 1, 2019 to July 1, 2021. All journals were selected for inclusion regardless of country of origin, language, medical speciality, or electronic availability of articles or abstracts. The terms were combined as follows: (“COVID-19†OR “COVID19†OR “SARS-COV-2†OR “SARSCOV2†OR “SARS 2†OR “Novel coronavirus†OR “2019-nCov†OR “Coronavirus†) AND (“Complication†OR “Long Term Complication†OR “Post-Intensive Care Syndrome†OR “Venous Thromboembolism†OR “Acute Kidney Injury†OR “Acute Liver Injury†OR “Post COVID-19 Syndrome†OR “Acute Cardiac Injury†OR “Cardiac Arrest†OR “Stroke†OR “Embolism†OR “Septic Shock†OR “Disseminated Intravascular Coagulation†OR “Secondary Infection†OR “Blood Clots† OR “Cytokine Release Syndrome†OR “Paediatric Inflammatory Multisystem Syndrome†OR “Vaccine..., , # Data of top 50 most cited articles about COVID-19 and the complications of COVID-19

This dataset contains information about the top 50 most cited articles about COVID-19 and the complications of COVID-19. We have looked into a variety of research and clinical factors for the analysis.

Description of the data and file structure

The data sheet offers a comprehensive analysis of the selected articles. It delves into specifics such as the publication year of the top 50 articles, the journals responsible for publishing them, and the geographical region with the highest number of citations in this elite list. Moreover, the sheet sheds light on the key players involved, including authors and their affiliated departments, in crafting the top 50 most cited articles.

Beyond these fundamental aspects, the data sheet goes on to provide intricate details related to the study types and topics prevalent in the top 50 articles. To enrich the analysis, it incorporates clinical data, capturing...

Results of future JIF prediction.

BackgroundSharing research data provides benefit to the general scientific community, but the benefit is less obvious for the investigator who makes his or her data available.Principal FindingsWe examined the citation history of 85 cancer microarray clinical trial publications with respect to the availability of their data. The 48% of trials with publicly available microarray data received 85% of the aggregate citations. Publicly available data was significantly (p = 0.006) associated with a 69% increase in citations, independently of journal impact factor, date of publication, and author country of origin using linear regression.SignificanceThis correlation between publicly available data and increased literature impact may further motivate investigators to share their detailed research data.

Journal of Diabetes Research Acceptance Rate - ResearchHelpDesk - Journal of Diabetes Research is a Open Access, peer-reviewed journal that publishes research articles (Orginal Article), clinical studies and review articles related to type one (1) and type two (2) diabetes. The journal welcomes submissions focusing on the etiology, management, pathogenesis, epidemiology and prevention of diabetes, as well as associated complications, such as diabetic neuropathy, retinopathy and nephropathy. Journal of Diabetes Research is archived in Portico, which provides permanent archiving for electronic scholarly journals, as well as via the LOCKSS initiative. It operates a fully open access publishing model which allows open global access to its published content. This model is supported through Article Processing Charges. The most recent Impact Factor for Journal of Diabetes Research is 2.885 according to the 2017 Journal Citation Reports released by Clarivate Analytics in 2018. The journal’s most recent CiteScore is 3.02 according to the CiteScore 2018 metrics released by Scopus.

The Journal Impact Factor is often used as a proxy measure for journal quality, but the empirical evidence is scarce. In particular, it is unclear how peer review characteristics for a journal relate to its impact factor. We analysed 10,000 peer review reports submitted to 1,644 biomedical journals with impact factors ranging from 0.21 to 74.7. Two researchers hand-coded sentences using categories of content related to the thoroughness of the review (Materials and Methods, Presentation and Reporting, Results and Discussion, Importance and Relevance) and helpfulness (Suggestion and Solution, Examples, Praise, Criticism). We fine-tuned and validated transformer machine learning language models to classify sentences. We then examined the association between the number and percentage of sentences addressing different content categories and 10 groups defined by the Journal Impact Factor. The median length of reviews increased with higher impact factor, from 185 words (group 1) to 387 words (group 10). The percentage of sentences addressing Materials and Methods was greater in the highest Journal Impact Factor journals than in the lowest Journal Impact Factor group. The results for Presentation and Reporting went in the opposite direction, with the highest Journal Impact Factor journals giving less emphasis to such content. For helpfulness, reviews for higher impact factor journals devoted relatively less attention to Suggestion and Solution than lower impact factor journals. In conclusion, peer review in journals with higher impact factors tends to be more thorough, particularly in addressing study methods while giving relatively less emphasis to presentation or suggesting solutions. Differences were modest and variability high, indicating that the Journal Impact Factor is a bad predictor of the quality of peer review of an individual manuscript.

Journal of Accounting Research Impact Factor 2024-2025 - ResearchHelpDesk - The Journal of Accounting Research is a general-interest accounting journal. It publishes original research in all areas of accounting and related fields that utilizes tools from basic disciplines such as economics, statistics, psychology, and sociology. This research typically uses analytical, empirical archival, experimental, and field study methods and addresses economic questions, external and internal, in accounting, auditing, disclosure, financial reporting, taxation, and information as well as related fields such as corporate finance, investments, capital markets, law, contracting, and information economics. The journal publishes four regular issues and one conference issue each year. The conference issue contains papers from the annual accounting research conference held at the University of Chicago. Topics published include: The impact of financial reporting and disclosure on stock prices; The economics of auditing, enforcement and audit oversight; The use of accounting information in contracting in debt, labour, supply, and other markets; The role of accounting in compensation and in corporate governance; The role of managerial accounting on internal decision making such as budgeting, costing, and transfer pricing; The real effects of financial reporting and disclosure (e.g. on firm behaviour); The economics of regulation of financial reporting and disclosure, including bank regulation; International differences in financial reporting and the role of reporting standards in international capital markets; The political economy of standard-setting; The use of accounting information in public finance and macroeconomic statistics; The impact of tax regulation on transaction structuring; The role of transparency in markets and society; Corporate Social Responsibility Keywords Accounting, Finance, Business, Global, Research, Statistical, Historical, Professional, Auditing, Theory, Financial, Management, Social, Environmental, Taxation, Analysis, Journal, Studies, Article, Periodical, Review, Book, Standards, Regulation, Rules, International Abstracting and Indexing Information ABI/INFORM Collection (ProQuest) Accounting, Tax & Banking Collection (ProQuest) Business Abstracts (EBSCO Publishing) Business ASAP (GALE Cengage) Business Premium Collection (ProQuest) CatchWord (Publishing Technology) Current Contents: Social & Behavioral Sciences (Clarivate Analytics) Current Index to Statistics (ASA/IMS) EBSCO Online (EBSCO Publishing) EconLit (AEA) Emerald Management Reviews (Emerald) Expanded Academic ASAP (GALE Cengage) InfoTrac (GALE Cengage) Journal Citation Reports/Social Science Edition (Clarivate Analytics) OmniFile Full Text Mega Edition (HW Wilson) Periodical Index Online (ProQuest) Proquest Business Collection (ProQuest) ProQuest Central (ProQuest) ProQuest Central K-277 ProQuest Politics Collection (ProQuest) ProQuest Sociology Collection (ProQuest) RePEc: Research Papers in Economics Research Library (ProQuest) Research Library Prep (ProQuest) SCOPUS (Elsevier) Social Science Premium Collection (ProQuest) Social Sciences Citation Index (Clarivate Analytics)

ELife Impact Factor 2024-2025 - ResearchHelpDesk - eLife welcomes the submission of Research Articles, Short Reports, Tools and Resources articles, Research Advances, Scientific Correspondence and Review Articles in the subject areas below. Biochemistry and Chemical Biology; Cancer Biology; Cell Biology; Chromosomes and Gene Expression; Computational and Systems Biology; Developmental Biology; Ecology; Epidemiology and Global Health; Evolutionary Biology; Genetics and Genomics; Human Biology and Medicine; Immunology and Inflammation; Microbiology and Infectious Disease; Neuroscience; Physics of Living Systems; Plant Biology; Stem Cells and Regenerative Medicine; Structural Biology and Molecular Biophysics eLife is a selective, not for profit peer-reviewed open access scientific journal for the biomedical and life sciences. It was established at the end of 2012 by the Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Max Planck Society, and Wellcome Trust, following a workshop held in 2010 at the Janelia Farm Research Campus. Together, these organizations provided the initial funding to support the business and publishing operations. In 2016, the organization committed US$26 million to continue the publication of the journal.

Advances in Environment Research Impact Factor 2024-2025 - ResearchHelpDesk - The Advances in Environmental Research (AER), An International Journal, aims to open easy access to the valuable source of information and to provide an excellent publication channel for the global community of Environmental Research. The areas covered by AER journal include interdisciplinary research in; Environmental Science Technology Management.

Indian Journal of Dental Research Impact Factor 2024-2025 - ResearchHelpDesk - Indian Journal of Dental Research (IJDR) is the official publication of the Indian Society for Dental Research (ISDR), India division of the International Association for Dental Research (IADR), published Bimonthly. IJDR publishes scientific papers on well designed and controlled original research involving orodental sciences. Papers may also include reports on unusual and interesting case presentations and invited review papers on significant topics. Abstracting and Indexing Information The journal is registered with the following abstracting partners: Baidu Scholar, CNKI (China National Knowledge Infrastructure), EBSCO Publishing's Electronic Databases, Ex Libris – Primo Central, Google Scholar, Hinari, Infotrieve, National Science Library, ProQuest, TdNet, Wanfang Data The journal is indexed with, or included in, the following: DOAJ, EMBASE/ Excerpta Medica, Indian Science Abstracts, IndMed, MEDLINE/Index Medicus, Scimago Journal Ranking, SCOPUS Journal Ethics Wolters Kluwer and Journal/Association are committed to meeting and upholding standards of ethical behavior at all stages of the publication process. We follow closely the industry associations, such as the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE), International Committee of Medical Journal Editors (ICMJE) and World Association of Medical Editors (WAME), that set standards and provide guidelines for best practices in order to meet these requirements. For a summary of our specific policies regarding duplicate publication, conflicts of interest, patient consent, etc.,

Answers to a survey on gold Open Access run from July to October 2016. The dataset contains 15,235 unique responses from Web of Science published authors. This survey is part of a PhD thesis from the University of Granada in Spain. More details about the study can be found in the full text document, also available in Zenodo.

Following are listed the questions related to the WoS 2016 dataset. Please note that countries with less than 40 answers are listed as "Other" in order to preserve anonymity.

* 1. How many years have you been employed in research?

• Fewer than 5 years
• 5-14 years
• 15-24 years
• 25 years or longer

Many of the questions that follow concern Open Access publishing. For the purposes of this survey, an article is Open Access if its final, peer-reviewed, version is published online by a journal and is free of charge to all users without restrictions on access or use.

* 2. Do any journals in your research field publish Open Access articles?

• Yes
• No
• I do not know

* 3. Do you think your research field benefits, or would benefit from journals that publish Open Access articles?

• Yes
• No
• I have no opinion
• I do not care

* 4. How many peer reviewed research articles (Open Access or not Open Access) have you published in the last five years?

• 1-5
• 6-10
• 11-20
• 21-50
• More than 50

* 5. What factors are important to you when selecting a journal to publish in?

[Each factor may be rated “Extremely important”, “Important”, “Less important” or “Irrelevant”. The factors are presented in random order.]

• Importance of the journal for academic promotion, tenure or assessment
• Recommendation of the journal by my colleagues
• Positive experience with publisher/editor(s) of the journal
• The journal is an Open Access journal
• Relevance of the journal for my community
• The journal fits the policy of my organisation
• Prestige/perceived quality of the journal
• Likelihood of article acceptance in the journal
• Absence of journal publication fees (e.g. submission charges, page charges, colour charges)
• Copyright policy of the journal
• Journal Impact Factor
• Speed of publication of the journal

6. Who usually decides which journals your articles are submitted to? (Choose more than one answer if applicable)

• The decision is my own
• A collective decision is made with my fellow authors
• I am advised where to publish by a senior colleague
• The organisation that finances my research advises me where to publish
• Other (please specify) [Text box follows]

7. Approximately how many Open Access articles have you published in the last five years?

• 0
• 1-5
• 6-10
• More than 10
• I do not know

[If the answer is “0”, the survey jumps to Q10.]

* 8. What publication fee was charged for the last Open Access article you published?

• No charge
• Up to €250 ($275)
• €251-€500 ($275-$550)
• €501-€1000 ($551-$1100)
• €1001-€3000 ($1101-$3300)
• More than €3000 ($3300)
• I do not know

[If the answer is “No charge or I don’t know” the survey jumps to Q20. ]

* 9. How was this publication fee covered? (Choose more than one answer if applicable)

• My research funding includes money for paying such fees
• I used part of my research funding not specifically intended for paying such fees
• My institution paid the fees
• I paid the costs myself
• Other (please specify) [Text box follows]

* 10. How easy is it to obtain funding if needed for Open Access publishing from your institution or the organisation mainly responsible for financing your research?

• Easy
• Difficult
• I have not used these sources

* 11. Listed below are a series of statements, both positive and negative, concerning Open Access publishing. Please indicate how strongly you agree/disagree with each statement.

[Each statement may be rated “Strongly agree”, “Agree”, “Neither agree nor disagree”, “Disagree” or “Strongly disagree”. The statements are presented in random order.]

• Researchers should retain the rights to their published work and allow it to be used by others
• Open Access publishing undermines the system of peer review
• Open Access publishing leads to an increase in the publication of poor quality research
• If authors pay publication fees to make their articles Open Access, there will be less money available for research
• It is not beneficial for the general public to have access to published scientific and medical articles
• Open Access unfairly penalises research-intensive institutions with large publication output by making them pay high costs for publication
• Publicly-funded research should be made available to be read and used without access barrier
• Open Access publishing is more cost-effective than subscription-based publishing and so will benefit public investment in research
• Articles that are available by Open Access are likely to be read and cited more often than those not Open Access

This study and its questionnaire are based on the SOAP Project (http://project-soap.eu). An article describing the highlights of the SOAP Survey is available at: https://arxiv.org/abs/1101.5260. The dataset of the SOAP survey is available at http://bit.ly/gSmm71. A manual describing the SOAP dataset is available at http://bit.ly/gI8nc.

Librarians, publishers, and researchers have long placed significant emphasis on journal metrics such as the impact factor. However, these tools do not take into account the impact of research outside of citations and publications. Altmetrics seek to describe the reach of scholarly activity across the Internet and social media to paint a more vivid picture of the scholarly landscape. In order to examine the impact of altmetrics on scholarly activity, it is helpful to compare these new tools to an existing method. Citation counts are currently the standard for determining the impact of a scholarly work, and two studies were conducted to examine the correlation between citation count and altmetric data. First, a set of highly cited papers was chosen across a variety of disciplines, and their citation counts were compared with the altmetrics generated from Total-Impact.org. Second, to evaluate the hypothesized increased impact of altmetrics on recently published articles, a set of articles published in 2011 were taken from a sampling of journals with high impact factors, both subscription-based and open access, and the altmetrics were then compared to their citation counts.