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A graphical abstract (GA) represents a piece of artwork that is intended to summarize the main findings of an article for readers at a single glance. Many publishers currently encourage authors to supplement their articles with GAs, in the hope that such a convenient visual summary will facilitate readers with a clearer outline of papers that are of interest and will result in improved overall visibility of the respective publication. To test this assumption, we statistically compared publications with or without GA published in Molecules between March 2014 and March 2015 with regard to several output parameters reflecting visibility. Contrary to our expectations, manuscripts published without GA performed significantly better in terms of PDF downloads, abstract views, and total citations than manuscripts with GA. To the best of our knowledge, this is the first empirical study on the effectiveness of GA for attracting attention to scientific publications.
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Indización y Redacción de Resúmenes , Publicaciones Periódicas como AsuntoRESUMEN
El acceso abierto o libre (OA, por su sigla en inglés) es una iniciativa que promueve elacceso gratis al texto completo de los documentos, principalmente a través de internet. ElOA ha traído consigo un cambio en el modelo de negocios de las casas editoriales y lasha transformado de vendedoras de contenidos a proveedoras de servicios. En este artículose explica el modelo de negocios del OA y su implicación para la diseminación del conocimientopor medio de las revistas. Mi argumento es que el OA incrementa la diseminacióndel conocimiento científico, a la vez que provee ventajas para las revistas y los autores, entérminos de visibilidad en la red. Por ejemplo, el factor de impacto de las revistas de OA estáaumentando, como ha sido descrito por otros autores. A pesar de las ventajas que el OAconlleva para la comunidad científica, todavía la mayor parte de las revistas en la red sonparte del modelo de acceso cerrado, que impide la distribución gratis de los documentos.Usualmente, el acceso a estos artículos es costoso para las organizaciones y los países.Los autores deberían ser conscientes del valor del OA y tratar de esforzarse para hacer sutrabajo más visible y accesible...
Open Access (OA) is an initiative that promotes free access to the full text of documents,mainly through the Internet. OA has implied a change in the business model of publishers,transforming them from being content sellers to service providers. In this article I explainthe business model of OA and its implication for the spread of scientific knowledge throughjournals. My argument is that OA increases the spread of scientific knowledge while atthe same time provides advantages for journals and authors in terms of visibility on theweb. For example, the Impact factor of OA journals is increasing, as it has been shown byother researchers. Despite the possibilities that OA brings for the scientific community, stillmost journal articles in the web are part of a closed access model that impedes the freedistribution of documents. Usually, access to those articles is costly for organizations andcountries. Authors should be aware of the value of OA and try to make every effort in orderfor their work to be mor e visible and accessible...
