Number Of Full-text Downloads Research Articles

Nutrition Bulletin recognised with Impact Factor™

<i>Nutrition Bulletin</i> recognised with Impact Factor™

Optimizing the use of twitter for research dissemination: The “Three Facts and a Story” randomized-controlled trial

Published research promoted on twitter reaches more readers. Tweets with graphics are more engaging than those without. However, data are limited regarding how to optimize multimedia tweets for engagement. The "Three facts and a Story" trial is a randomized-controlled trial comparing a tweet featuring a graphical abstract to paired tweets featuring the personal motivations behind the research and a summary of the findings. Fifty-four studies published by the Journal of Hepatology were randomized at the time of online publication. The primary endpoint was assessed at 28-days from online publication with a primary outcome of full-text downloads from the website. Secondary outcomes included page views and twitter engagement including impressions, likes, and retweets. Overall, 31 studies received standard tweets and 23 received story tweets. Five studies were randomized to story tweets but crossed over to standard tweets for lack of author participation. Most papers tweeted were original articles (94% standard, 91% story) and clinical topics (55% standard, 61% story). Story tweets were associated with a significant increase in the number of full text downloads, 51 (34-71) vs. 25 (13-41), p= 0.002. There was also a non-significant increase in the number of page views. Story tweets generated an average of >1,000 more impressions than standard tweets (5,388 vs. 4,280, p= 0.002). Story tweets were associated with a similar number of retweets, and a non-significant increase in the number of likes. Tweets featuring the authors and their motivations may increase engagement with published research.

Supercharged!

Supercharged!

Dissemination of evidence in paediatric emergency medicine: a quantitative descriptive evaluation of a 16-week social media promotion

ObjectivesTRanslating Emergency Knowledge for Kids (TREKK) and Cochrane Child Health collaborate to develop knowledge products on paediatric emergency medicine topics. Via a targeted social media promotion, we aimed to increase...

Analysing researchers' outreach efforts and the association with publication metrics: A case study of Kudos.

With the growth of scholarly collaboration networks and social communication platforms, members of the scholarly community are experimenting with their approach to disseminating research outputs, in an effort to increase their audience and outreach. However, from a researcher’s point of view, it is difficult to determine whether efforts to make work more visible are worthwhile (in terms of the association with publication metrics) and within that, difficult to assess which platform or network is most effective for sharing work and connecting to a wider audience. We undertook a case study of Kudos (https://www.growkudos.com), a web-based service that claims to help researchers increase the outreach of their publications, to examine the most effective tools for sharing publications online, and to investigate which actions are associated with improved metrics. We extracted a dataset from Kudos of 830,565 unique publications claimed by authors, for which 20,775 had actions taken to explain or share via Kudos, and for 4,867 of these full text download data from publishers was available. Findings show that researchers are most likely to share their work on Facebook, but links shared on Twitter are more likely to be clicked on. A Mann-Whitney U test revealed that a treatment group (publications having actions in Kudos) had a significantly higher median average of 149 full text downloads (23.1% more) per publication as compared to a control group (having no actions in Kudos) with a median average of 121 full text downloads per publication. These findings suggest that performing actions on publications, such as sharing, explaining, or enriching, could help to increase the number of full text downloads of a publication.

Celebrating the First Impact Factor of Advanced Science

The popularity of Advanced Science has been increasing steadily in the 1.5 years since its launch. We have published many excellent articles and have seen readership broaden consistently each month. The number of full text downloads of published articles has increased rapidly over the course of the last 18 months and citations of published articles are also on the rise. Advanced Science was accepted for coverage in Web of Science at the beginning of 2016 and, based on the first issue published in December 2014, we just received our first impact factor of 6.0. This early success has been made possible in part by the enthusiastic support of our editorial advisory board and many top authors. I recently met one of our authors, Cyrille Boyer, whose work is featured on the front cover of this issue at a conference and he stated: “I believe Advanced Science is an excellent multidisciplinary journal. I read it every week and I always find new and exciting research. I especially like that it covers research in different fields: materials science, energy, drug delivery, chemistry, and more, written by high profile authors and I'm sure the journal will have a very high first impact factor. I absolutely believe this journal has a great future.” In this issue, we are happy to present a collection of review articles that cover topics of highest interest ranging from drug delivery systems to perovskite solar cells and engineering cooling roofs. Like all articles published in Advanced Science, these not to be missed articles are available as open access and can be read without a subscription. The outstanding contributions featured here cover a wide range of topics. David Cahen (Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel) and Liming Ding (National Center for Nanoscience and Technology, Beijing, China) review advances in perovskite solar cells. The understanding of surface adhesion in nature is in the focus of a review article by Shutao Wang (Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China). Yuanhua Sang and Hong Liu (Shandong University, Jinan, China) summarize the current state of 1D ferroelectric nanostructures and their prospects for future applications. A more application-oriented topic is presented by Ming Gu (Swinburne University of Technology Hawthorn, Australia) who looks into the topic of radiative cooling. Tierui Zhang (Northwest University, Xi'an, China) presents a comprehensive and timely review on Zn2+-containing catalysts for efficient energy conversion. Jie-Peng Zhang (Sun Yat-Sen University, Guangzhou, China) summarizes recent progresses in the use of photoluminescent metal-organic frameworks for gas sensing. Light-activated drug delivery systems using lanthanide-doped up-conversion nanoparticles are presented to our readers by Cyrille Boyer and May Lim (University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia). In a much more physics-oriented review Tie-Jun Zhu (Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, China) and Jian He (Clemson University, USA) report on defect engineering in thermoelectric materials. The article by Jian-Xin Tang (Soochow University, Suzhou, China) comprehensively reviews the most recent progress of the light manipulation in organic photovoltaics. Last but not least, Wei Feng (Tianjin University, China) reviews the synthesis, structures, and applications of two-dimensional fluorinated graphene. We would like to thank all invited authors for their inspiring manuscripts, their trust in the journal and their contribution to the future success of Advanced Science. I hope that you will enjoy this collection of articles. If you are interested in contributing an open access article of your own that anyone can freely access do not hesitate to contact us. We are happy to discuss any potential topic with you. On behalf of the editorial team,

Off to a Strong Start

Off to a Strong Start

Brave new world: Our journal has become an Open Access journal.

Brave new world: Our journal has become an Open Access journal.

Developments in Advanced Synthesis &amp; Catalysis during 2013 and Plans for 2014

AbstractAdvanced Synthesis &amp; Catalysis (ASC) has enjoyed further success in 2013. A reorganization of the Editorial Office has made the editorial workflow more efficient and personal. Eleven new members on the ASC Academic Advisory Board are introduced. Growth in the Impact Factor is discussed. The numbers of submissions, printed pages and articles have increased continuously. Communications constitute half of the articles published, followed by full papers, updates, reviews, and commentaries. The proportion of manuscripts published from China and the rest of Eastern Asia has continued to increase. The number of full‐text downloads is very high and further increasing each year; China and the USA are at the front in terms of downloads of ASC articles.

Online Only - Ready for the Change!

This time last year we announced that Macromolecular Bioscience (along with Macromolecular Theory & Simulations and Macromolecular Reaction Engineering) would be published online only starting with the first issue of 2013. Almost one year later, we can sum up that this change has been a positive experience through and through. From board members and authors we have received solely positive feedback. Our authors especially appreciate the free color figures in their published articles. In 2013, submissions to the journal increased by almost 20% compared to the previous year. The community was obviously ready for the change. But how about us editors? Certainly it was unfamiliar in the beginning to go to a conference without some printed copies of the journal in your hands. Luckily, our colleagues from the marketing department had some clever ideas on how to present our content in the digital world. QR codes are incorporated into promotional flyers to highlight outstanding publications. Times are changing: while I as an active researcher liked to read through journal copies at conferences a couple of years ago, nowadays people can be seen scanning the QR codes in those flyers and enjoying the free access to selected contributions. On top of that, we draw additional attention to carefully selected articles that we promote on MaterialsViews and MaterialsViewsChina (see Figure 1). There is no doubt that Macromolecular Bioscience is getting more attention than ever before. This is confirmed when looking at the number of full text downloads, which have gone up significantly. In the first 9 months of 2013, we observed a nearly 20% growth (compared to the same period in 2012). The papers with the highest numbers of downloads between November 2012 and October 2013 are given in Table 1. Many of these contributions deal with polymeric scaffolds and tissue engineering, but also topics such as biosensors, bioadhesion, drug delivery, and vaccines are covered. Regionally, a wide diversity can be seen. Many of these top papers come from the USA and Canada, but also contributions from China, Germany, and the Netherlands made it to the top list. I would like to thank the authors of these outstanding papers as well as our other authors from around the world for their trust, our critical reviewers and board members for their feedback, and you, our readers, for your ongoing interest in our journal. Together we are looking forward to an exciting 2014! Kirsten Severing Editor

State of the Aquatic Ecosystem Health and Management Society: A chronicle of its initiation, growth, and advancement

It was both an opportune time and a stroke of luck that I was offered the opportunity to work under the influence of two limnological titans, namely Drs. Richard Vollenweider and Jack Vallentyne at...

Celebrating volume 10 of the European journal of ageing

Celebrating one’s 10th birthday is something in a human life. Entering the 10th volume is certainly something to celebrate in a scientific journal’s life and certainly signals significantly more than to leave single-numbered volumes behind. The simple version may be ‘We made it the first 10 years—Let’s celebrate’. The more enriched (and selfassertive, if not proud) version may read as follows: ‘Yes, we have survived in good shape, we have a steady and constantly growing submission rate and we play an increasingly significant role in our relevant scientific community—Let’s celebrate’. We as editors have a tendency to go more with the second version, when it comes to the European Journal of Ageing. The journal is not only alive, it flourishes and there are indications that our journal now belongs to the group (together with, e.g. ‘Ageing & Society’) of premier European-based ageing research journals coming with an interdisciplinary ambition. The Journal’s visibility continues to grow. Our impact factor has reached 1,268 in 2011 (Ageing & Society: 1,165) and our most modest hope is for stability, but not without the ambition to see further increase. Amongst the 30 gerontology journals included in the social science citation index, the rank of our journal rose from 15th in 2010 to 13th in 2011. Again, as has been in the previous years, the number of full text downloads shows a steady growth, as does the number of subscribers to table of contents alerts. In parallel with these developments, the number of submissions is significantly growing and we had more than 140 submissions in 2012, compared to just over 100 in 2011. After having refreshed our editorial board in 2011, we made another significant step in 2012 to improve the quality of the journal’s scholarly platform, i.e. we added a third editor-in-chief: Prof. Howard Litwin from Hebrew University of Jerusalem. Prof. Litwin is an internationally acknowledged scholar in the social sciences of ageing and this is exactly the area in which the ‘old editors’, Dorly Deeg and Hans-Werner Wahl, felt additional expertise was needed. Prof. Litwin already provided a lot of service to the journal before he entered the editor-in-chief office and has been a guest editor of our special section on ‘Comparative contexts of care: findings from the survey of health, ageing and retirement in Europe’ (issue 9-1). Prof. Litwin has many liaisons with the European ageing research community and therefore is simply ideal to enrich the journal at the editors level. Effective in office since October 1st, 2012, Prof. Litwin now is in regular business and we are happy to have him with us (and he will of course become a co-author of our next editorial). We also hope to significantly shorten turn-around time with the trio. The papers in this issue nicely cover the three major areas of our journal, i.e. social, behavioural, and healthrelated ageing research. In the section ‘Critical positions in ageing research’ Liam Foster and Alan Walker take the 2012 European year of active ageing and intergenerational solidarity as a springboard to reflect upon gendered issues related to the concept of active ageing. Oliver C. Robinson’s article offers intriguing findings on age differences in a range of values studied across 12 European countries as part of the European Social Survey. An article by Bjorn Hallerod and colleagues addresses, once again after our mini special section in issue 9-3, retirement issues and H.-W. Wahl (&) Heidelberg University, Heidelberg, Germany e-mail: h.w.wahl@psychologie.uni-heidelberg.de

The European Journal of Ageing in the European Year for Active Ageing

The European Journal of Ageing in the European Year for Active Ageing

The Journal of Orthopaedics and Traumatology: reflecting Italian orthopaedics worldwide

The Journal of Orthopaedics and Traumatology, official journal of the Italian Society of Orthopaedics and Traumatology (SIOT), has established a solid reputation not only in Italy but also on the international scientific scene. As a result of many years of commitment, enthusiasm and energy on the part of its Founding Editor, Prof. Francesco Pipino, and of the efforts of a dedicated Editorial Board and a leading international publisher, it is now included in PubMed/Medline and read in thousands of hospitals and academic institutions worldwide. At the most recent Editorial Board meeting we were pleased to see the fruits of our recent publishing activities. The strategy of adopting Open Access has allowed the journal to be included in PubMed Central, which has considerably increased the visibility of its valuable content. This editorial strategy and the innovative publishing model, together with a selective peer review process that has led to a rejection rate of 60% (in line with that of other leading medical journals), have contributed to the journal’s growing international recognition, which is reflected by the constant increase in the number of full-text downloads. With its already consolidated European reputation, the journal is now beginning to be more widely read in the emerging countries of Asia as well as in the more traditionally and scientifically recognised area of North America. Furthermore, in 2010 there has been a 57% increase in the number of submissions (more than 70% of which come from overseas), and a 30% reduction in the time required for peer reviewing. The average time from the acceptance of a manuscript to its online publication is about 3 weeks, which ensures timely publication and therefore constant updates for the reader. However, although all of us were delighted to see the journal’s inclusion in Medline, the consequent increase in the number of submissions has required a new distribution of management responsibilities. I feel extremely honoured to have been appointed as Editor-in-Chief, but we all need to express our warmest and heartfelt thanks to Prof. Pipino, who founded the journal and edited it for so many years with that passion, competence and judgement that we all acknowledge: a great maestro, a great Editor-in-Chief, and a great friend. We are currently considering the possibility of appointing Consulting Editors for individual subject areas in order to base the peer review on specific competencies. Consulting Editors would also be responsible for promoting international cooperation with foreign scientific societies, journals covering related disciplines, and authoritative contributors. Each Consulting Editor would be assisted by a group of collaborators and, in this regard, I hope that young orthopaedists will support them. As I had the opportunity to underline during the opening session of the last national SIOT Congress in Milan, I believe that Italy has the expertise and excellence to carry out clinical studies and trials of the highest scientific value: now we have also an excellent editorial product that can circulate them worldwide. The next challenge will be inclusion in Thomson Reuters and the assignment of an impact factor. I am aware that these are ambitious objectives, but I trust that cooperation among SIOT members, authors, reviewers and editors will grant us excellence and increased international recognition.

Multi-authored publications: their influence in the distribution of the financing costs in world licenses

Due to the rising costs of periodicals and the necessity of assuring access to the research results of the scientific community, new publishing models are required. Most of them are based on the distribution of financing costs among all participating authors, affiliations or countries according to the number of their scientific publications. Thus the distribution of costs may depend very much on the manner in which the problem of multi-authorship is handled. Our study focuses on the dependence of the distribution of financing costs on multi-authorship handling for a case study: the hypothetical Austrian participation in the world project SCOAP. Our results show that the distributions of costs differ widely. We also survey whether there is any correlation between the number of full-text downloads operated by several universities with the number of their publications in these journals. The correlation results vary depending on the type of journal: broader or specific journals. Copyright , Beech Tree Publishing.

Our infancy period

Our infancy period

Editorial: phys. stat. sol. (a) 205/1

AbstractHow do you find the scientific information and the manuscript reference you need? The answer to this basic but very important question for every active scientist has changed significantly over the last 30 years. When I was a Ph.D. student or a young postdoc, I would venture regularly to a strange and quiet place called a “library”, where all important journals in my field could be easily identified already from the amount of the shelve space they filled. To find a specific reference and to preserve it for future use was limited by the physical exercise to carry a stack of heavy volumes to the copy machine and to press a “copy” button for each page I really wanted to keep. On the way, sometimes I actually found another interesting paper just by browsing through the latest issue of Journal X, and I copied this one, too. And in most cases, I even read what I copied.Today, things are much better! All relevant information is available online in electronic form, so I do not have to leave my office anymore to find out what's new. The impact factors of journals and the h‐factors of authors help me to distinguish good from bad, or at least that is the hope. Whenever I search for a specific topic, anyhow I will get more hits than I can digest in a realistic time. Fortunately, printers by now are so fast and powerful that I can transfer the rest to a printout which I will, most likely, never use again in the foreseeable future.But seriously, although the way to make use of and to deal with scientific information has changed drastically in the last couple of decades, the basic needs of active scientists for reliable, up‐to‐date, and easily accessible information exchange with their international colleagues worldwide has basically remained the same. We at physica status solidi, therefore, for more than 45 years have been and are dedicated to provide exactly that service to our authors and readers, whether they make use of the pss hardcopies in the library or whether they browse the online files of physica status solidi. Last year, more than 2500 articles have been published after strict peer review and careful editing, which makes physica status solidi (nomen est omen) the second largest journal series in solid state physics. The journal has more than doubled in volume since the year 2000, but the Impact Factor also has increased by a factor of two since 1995, showing that we did not trade in quantity for quality. And, last but not least, the visibility of the journal series as measured by the number of full text downloads has increased by a similar factor of two in the last 24 months alone.In October 2007, more than 40000 full text downloads of physica status solidi articles have been registered by the Wiley Interscience data base. Unfortunately, we have no idea how many of these articles have actually been read …In the name of the entire pss‐team, I thank all of you for your continued support of and interest in physica status solidi and wish you a successful year 2008!

Editorial: phys. stat. sol. (b) 245/1

AbstractHow do you find the scientific information and the manuscript reference you need? The answer to this basic but very important question for every active scientist has changed significantly over the last 30 years. When I was a Ph.D. student or a young postdoc, I would venture regularly to a strange and quiet place called a “library”, where all important journals in my field could be easily identified already from the amount of the shelve space they filled. To find a specific reference and to preserve it for future use was limited by the physical exercise to carry a stack of heavy volumes to the copy machine and to press a “copy” button for each page I really wanted to keep. On the way, sometimes I actually found another interesting paper just by browsing through the latest issue of Journal X, and I copied this one, too. And in most cases, I even read what I copied.Today, things are much better! All relevant information is available online in electronic form, so I do not have to leave my office anymore to find out what's new. The impact factors of journals and the h‐factors of authors help me to distinguish good from bad, or at least that is the hope. Whenever I search for a specific topic, anyhow I will get more hits than I can digest in a realistic time. Fortunately, printers by now are so fast and powerful that I can transfer the rest to a printout which I will, most likely, never use again in the foreseeable future.But seriously, although the way to make use of and to deal with scientific information has changed drastically in the last couple of decades, the basic needs of active scientists for reliable, up‐to‐date, and easily accessible information exchange with their international colleagues worldwide has basically remained the same. We at physica status solidi, therefore, for more than 45 years have been and are dedicated to provide exactly that service to our authors and readers, whether they make use of the pss hardcopies in the library or whether they browse the online files of physica status solidi. Last year, more than 2500 articles have been published after strict peer review and careful editing, which makes physica status solidi (nomen est omen) the second largest journal series in solid state physics. The journal has more than doubled in volume since the year 2000, but the Impact Factor also has increased by a factor of two since 1995, showing that we did not trade in quantity for quality. And, last but not least, the visibility of the journal series as measured by the number of full text downloads has increased by a similar factor of two in the last 24 months alone.In October 2007, more than 40000 full text downloads of physica status solidi articles have been registered by the Wiley Interscience data base. Unfortunately, we have no idea how many of these articles have actually been read …In the name of the entire pss‐team, I thank all of you for your continued support of and interest in physica status solidi and wish you a successful year 2008!

Editorial: phys. stat. sol. (c) 5/1

AbstractHow do you find the scientific information and the manuscript reference you need? The answer to this basic but very important question for every active scientist has changed significantly over the last 30 years. When I was a Ph.D. student or a young postdoc, I would venture regularly to a strange and quiet place called a “library”, where all important journals in my field could be easily identified already from the amount of the shelve space they filled. To find a spe‐cific reference and to preserve it for future use was limited by the physical exercise to carry a stack of heavy volumes to the copy machine and to press a “copy” button for each page I really wanted to keep. On the way, sometimes I actually found another interesting paper just by browsing through the latest issue of Journal X, and I copied this one, too. And in most cases, I even read what I copied.Today, things are much better! All relevant information is available online in electronic form, so I do not have to leave my office anymore to find out what's new. The impact factors of journals and the h ‐factors of authors help me to distinguish good from bad, or at least that is the hope. Whenever I search for a specific topic, anyhow I will get more hits than I can digest in a realistic time. Fortunately, printers by now are so fast and powerful that I can transfer the rest to a printout which I will, most likely, never use again in the foreseeable future.But seriously, although the way to make use of and to deal with scientific information has changed drastically in the last couple of decades, the basic needs of active scientists for reliable, up‐to‐date, and easily accessible information exchange with their international colleagues worldwide has basically remained the same. We at physica status solidi, therefore, for more than 45 years have been and are dedicated to provide exactly that service to our authors and readers, whether they make use of the pss hard‐copies in the library or whether they browse the online files of physica status solidi. Last year, more than 2500 articles have been published after strict peer review and careful editing, which makes physica status solidi (nomen est omen) the second largest journal series in solid state physics. The journal has more than doubled in volume since the year 2000, but the Impact Factor also has increased by a factor of two since 1995, showing that we did not trade in quantity for quality. And, last but not least, the visibility of the journal series as meas‐ured by the number of full text downloads has in‐creased by a similar factor of two in the last 24 months alone.In October 2007, more than 40000 full text downloads of physica status solidi articles have been registered by the Wiley Interscience data base. Unfortunately, we have no idea how many of these articles have actually been read …In the name of the entire pss‐team, I thank all of you for your continued support of and interest in physica status solidi and wish you a successful year 2008!

Vendor-supplied usage data for electronic resources: a survey of academic libraries

A survey was sent to research libraries in the United States and Canada to learn about the level of effort involved in working with vendors' usage reports, how the data are used, and which data are most useful to librarians in managing electronic resources. Ninety-two responses were received and analyzed. Lack of standards and inconsistencies in the usage data were identified as issues in effectively preparing the data for further analysis. In fact, the results showed that more time was spent acquiring, reformatting, and manipulating the data than on actually analyzing them. The number of full-text downloads was specified as the most useful statistic for assessing the use of electronic resources.