Brennan Peter A, Habib Ahmed
Maxillofacial Unit, Queen Alexandra Hospital, Portsmouth PO6 3LY, UK.
Br J Oral Maxillofac Surg. 2011 Oct;49(7):527-31. doi: 10.1016/j.bjoms.2011.05.010.
A large number of papers related to oral and maxillofacial surgery are published in many specialist journals. With the ever-increasing use of the internet it is easy to download them as part of a journal subscription on a fee per paper basis, or in some cases for free. Online access to the British Journal of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery (BJOMS) is free to British Association (BAOMS) members with a $30 fee per paper download for non-members. Many colleagues use the online version of the journal, and this provides valuable information about downloading trends. Other data on articles that have been cited in subsequent publications are also readily available, and they form the basis for the calculation of a journal's impact factor. We evaluated the top 50 downloaded papers from the BJOMS website in 2010 to ascertain which articles were being read online. We also obtained data on the number of citations for papers published in 2009-2010 to see whether these papers were similar to the articles being downloaded. In 2010 there were over 360000 downloaded articles. The most popular papers were leading articles, reviews, and full length articles; only one short communication featured in the top 50 downloads. The papers most cited in subsequent publications were full length articles and leading articles or reviews, which represent 80% of the total citations of the 50 papers. Ten papers were in both the top 50 downloaded and most cited lists. We discuss the implications of this study for the journal and our readers.
大量与口腔颌面外科相关的论文发表在许多专业期刊上。随着互联网使用的不断增加，很容易将它们作为期刊订阅的一部分，按每篇论文付费下载，或者在某些情况下免费下载。英国口腔颌面外科杂志（BJOMS）对英国口腔颌面外科协会（BAOMS）会员免费提供在线访问权限，非会员每下载一篇论文需支付30美元。许多同行使用该期刊的网络版，这提供了有关下载趋势的宝贵信息。关于后续出版物中被引用文章的其他数据也很容易获取，它们构成了计算期刊影响因子的基础。我们评估了2010年BJOMS网站上下载量排名前50的论文，以确定哪些文章被在线阅读。我们还获取了2009 - 2010年发表论文的被引用次数数据，以查看这些论文是否与被下载的文章相似。2010年有超过360000篇文章被下载。最受欢迎的论文是社论、综述和全文文章；在前50篇下载文章中只有一篇简短通讯。后续出版物中被引用最多的论文是全文文章以及社论或综述，它们占这50篇论文总引用次数的80%。有10篇论文同时出现在下载量排名前50和被引用次数最多的列表中。我们讨论了这项研究对该期刊和我们读者的意义。
