The articles in this year’s Top 100 were featured in over 23,000 news stories from mainstream media outlets tracked by Altmetric. Both manuscripts generated large amounts of press and social media attention reflecting widespread interest, despite the fact that they have not yet been peer-reviewed. The bioRxiv report documents an increased risk of certain cancers in rats following prolonged exposure to mobile phones, while the PeerJ submission looked at gender differences in contributions to open source software. The commitment to enable science to advance as quickly as possible to help find a cure for the Zika virus meant that articles in journals such as Nature, NEJM and The Lancet, which do not normally offer an Open Access option, have been made available for anyone to access.Ī news story on one Altmetric details page also highlighted NASA’s announcement that it was making most of its publicly funded studies free to read online - further evidence of enabling a broader audience to read and engage with research.Īlso interesting is the appearance of early reports from preprint servers PeerJ Preprints & bioRxiv.
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