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" Access to Top-Cited Emergency Care Articles (Published Between 2012 and 2016) Without Subscription "
Al Hamzy, Murad; de Villiers, Dominique; Banner, Megan; Lamprecht, Hein; Bruijns, Stevan R.
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913027
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LA32f7p6g9
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Access to Top-Cited Emergency Care Articles (Published Between 2012 and 2016) Without Subscription [Article]\ Al Hamzy, Murad; de Villiers, Dominique; Banner, Megan; Lamprecht, Hein; Bruijns, Stevan R.
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2019
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UC Irvine
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<strong>Introduction:</strong> Unrestricted access to journal publications speeds research progress, productivity, and knowledge translation, which in turn develops and promotes the efficient dissemination of content. We describe access to the 500 most-cited emergency medicine (EM) articles (published between 2012 and 2016) in terms of publisher-based access (open access or subscription), alternate access routes (self-archived or author provided), and relative cost of access.<strong>Methods: </strong>We used the Scopus database to identify the 500 most-cited EM articles published between 2012 and 2016. Access status was collected from the journal publisher. For studies not available via open access, we searched on Google, Google Scholar, Researchgate, Academia.edu, and the Unpaywall and Open Access Button browser plugins to locate self archived copies. We contacted corresponding authors of the remaining inaccessible studies for a copy of each of their articles. We collected article processing and access costs from the journal publishers, and then calculated relative cost differences using the World Bank purchasing power parity index for the United States (U.S.), Germany, Turkey, China, Brazil, South Africa, and Australia. This allows costs to be understood relative to the economic context of the countries from which they originated.<strong>Results: </strong>We identified 500 articles for inclusion in the study. Of these, 167 (33%) were published in an open access format. Of the remaining 333 (67%), 204 (61%) were available elsewhere on the internet, 18 (4%) were provided by the authors, and 111 (22%) were accessible by subscription only. The mean article processing and access charges were
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