Presented at ReCon - Research in the 21st Century: Data, Analytics & Impact, Edinburgh 19 June 2015 How do researchers identify the most relevant papers from roughly 1.8 million articles published in ca. 28,000 scholarly journals each year? And how does discovery lead to “impact”? Established aggregators have traditionally depended on citation counts as the principle measure of relevance. As the Open Access movement sets increasing amounts of data (articles and references) free on the internet, new ways to collect, rate and rank content across publishers are being developed for and by the digital generation. The crux of the Open Access movement may well not be its moral imperative or its new business model, but the myriad of projects which can build on access to structured digital information. How will new Open Access aggregators with novel, open measurements of impact affect the current publishing landscape? Case study: the ScienceOpen platform currently aggregates 1.5 million Open Access articles and is developing tools to showcase excellent research across publishers via editorial selection in Collections.

1. The Big Picture: Open Access content
aggregators as drivers of impact
ReCon Conference
Edinburgh, 19 June 2015
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Information overload
Yearly ca. 1.8 million articles published in
around 28,000 scholarly journals.
And more on the way…
 Digitalization – new outlets
 Economic logic of Open Access
 Publication of negative results, all
clinical trials, data sets, micro-
publications
 China, India, Brazil and others entering
the research community
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Discovery
How do researchers find
relevant articles?
 Search engines (Google)
 Indexing services (pubMed, Scopus,
Web of Science, SciELO)
 Networking (Social media,
conferences)
 Topical bundling (journals, collections)
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Ranking knowledge
 Orientation
 Context
 Inspiration
 Time-saving
But also..
 Reputation
 Career
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Journal-based tools: Impact Factor
“Impact Factor—
Negotiated,
Irreproducible, and
Unsound”
Brembs, Button, Munafò
Front. Hum. Neurosci., 24 June 2013
http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fnhum.2013.00291

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Impact Factor Economy

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Article-based tools
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 Usage statistics
 Social media mentions
 Mentions in news media, blogs,
podcasts
 Citations in scientific literature
 Open Peer Review reports
 Comments
 Inclusion in citation management
tools (Mendeley, CiteuLike)

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The opportunity
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Open Access making
large numbers of
structured research
articles available across
all publishers.
Let‘s play!

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Case Study: ScienceOpen

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What is ScienceOpen?
 ScienceOpen is a next generation Open Access
communication platform.
 1.5 million aggregated Open Access articles open to Post-
Pub Peer Review and Collection building.
 Suite of social-networking and collaboration tools.
 ScienceOpen as publisher offers immediate publication
after editorial check with a transparent, network-based
peer-review afterward.

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Article page: Share, comment, review

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Content aggregation on ScienceOpen
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 Advanced search functionalities
 Saved searches with notification when new
content is added
 Search for similar content on ScienceOpen
 Altmetric information on every paper
 Commenting and Post-Publication Peer Review
(with trackable CrossRef DOI for reports) on all
content
 What‘s missing? – The ability to rank articles

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Coming soon…
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Society B
 Citation information within the
ScienceOpen platform
 Reference “stubs“ for content not on
the platform (ca. 10 million to start)
 Author profiles
 Content ranking
 Recommendation function from a
range of parameters

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Future of scholarly communication
What aspects of scholarly journals are
most important to users?
 Topic-specific bundling
 Editorial selection
 Quality assurance
 Trust and reliability
ScienceOpen Collections provide
these functions beyond individual
publishers or journals.

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ScienceOpen Collections

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Researcher-driven collections

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Publisher branding on ScienceOpen

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New journal promotion: Thieme

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Best of OA promotion: IUCr

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In summary…
 Beyond the Impact Factor:
we need new ways to rate
and rank content across
publishers
 New tools for content
owners (publishers,
societies, authors) to
promote their work
 Aggregators leading the
way
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Thank you!
Stephanie Dawson, PhD
ScienceOpen GmbH
Pappelallee 78/79
10437 Berlin, Germany
Skype: dawson_scienceopen
Twitter: @SDawsonBerlin
Mobile: +49-176-72614581
Tel: +49-30-6098490-277
Stephanie.Dawson@ScienceOpen.com

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Looking forward to your visit!
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facebook.com/pages/scienceopencom/151202981751490
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