Open Access and Altmetrics in the pandemic age: Forescast analysis on COVID-19 literature

Abstract

We present an analysis on the uptake of open access on COVID-8 19 related literature as well as the social media attention they gather when 9 compared with non OA papers. We use a dataset of publications curated by 10 Dimensions and analyze articles and preprints. Our sample includes 11,686 11 publications of which 67.5% are openly accessible. OA publications tend to re-12 ceive the largest share of social media attention as measured by the Altmetric 13Attention Score. 37.6% of OA publications are bronze, which means toll jour-14 nals are providing free access. MedRxiv contributes to 36.3% of documents in 15 repositories but papers in BiorXiv exhibit on average higher AAS. We predict 16 the growth of COVID-19 literature in the following 30 days estimating ARIMA 17 models for the overall publications set, OA vs. non OA and by location of the 18 document (repository vs. journal). We estimate that COVID-19 publications 19 will double in the next 20 days, but non OA publications will grow at a higher 20 rate than OA publications. We conclude by discussing the implications of such 21 findings on the dissemination and communication of research findings to mit-22 igate the coronavirus outbreak.23

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