The keynote talk of MEDNET 2005 was a presentation of Gunther Eysenbach, Associate Professor Department of Health Policy, Management and Evaluation, University of Toronto; and Senior Scientist, Division of Medical Decision Making and Health Care Research.
He conducted a decent research to find out if articles published in Open Access are more likely to be cited (more often and earlier) then non-OA articles.
In a very clear way, although with a little basic statistics, he explained his research method and the results. Taking into account every possible factor that can be significantly important, the results show that there is a difference in favour of the OA articles.
The talk was explenatory about the difference between the GOLD way and the GREEN way.
In his opinion the research conducted by the OPCIT Project is mainly focussed on the GREEN way (the so-called "back-door") and he wanted to show independantly that the GOLD way is the " better" one.
The research wil be published shortly in "his" OA Journal of Medical Internet Research (JMIR), but perhaps the presentation will be available also shortly.
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UPDATE: Clarivate Analytics Acquires Research Startup Kopernio to Accelerate Pace of Scientific Innovation I am currently testing 4 browser extensions in Chrome that can help me find the PDF i need. They seem to be popping up like dandelions in the fields ;-) (Please read my post on ALL possible options to get to a PDF: http://digicmb.blogspot.nl/2017/03/how-to-get-pdf-infographic.html ) Here is a first glance of what they do. For testing i used this article: http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.cub.2016.10.008 (not free or open access) Kopernio (previously Canary Haz ( http://kopernio.com) Note this is a .com extension. This new company has been founded just 8 months ago. The Kopernio extension was released just in March 2017. Currently the Kopernio button is in alpha-testing and so far it seems free. The previous name appeared to be a tribute to the #ICANHAZPDF movement (requesting pdf's via Twitter with this hashtag). ...
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