Open access to journal articles in dentistry: Prevalence and citation impact

• Published in: Journal of dentistry Vol. 47; pp. 41 - 48
• Main Authors: Hua, Fang, Sun, Heyuan, Walsh, Tanya, Worthington, Helen, Glenny, Anne-Marie
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: England Elsevier Ltd 01.04.2016; Elsevier Limited
• Subjects: Access to Information; Bibliometrics; Biomedical research; Citation analysis; Confidence intervals; Counting; Dentistry; Dentistry - statistics & numerical data; Gold; Information storage and retrieval; Information Storage and Retrieval - statistics & numerical data; Internet - statistics & numerical data; Logistics; Maxillofacial surgery; Medical Informatics; Odds Ratio; Open access publishing; Orthodontics; Periodicals as topic; Periodicals as Topic - statistics & numerical data; Periodicals as Topic - trends; Prevalence; Public health; Regression analysis; Researchers; Roads; Scientific papers; Search strategies; Studies; Subscriptions; Information storage and retrieval; Access to information; Periodicals as topic; Dentistry; Bibliometrics; Medical informatics
• ISSN: 0300-5712; 1879-176X; 1879-176X
• DOI: 10.1016/j.jdent.2016.02.005

To investigate the current prevalence of open access (OA) in the field of dentistry, the means used to provide OA, as well as the association between OA and citation counts. PubMed was searched for dental articles published in 2013. The OA status of each article was determined by manually checking G...