{"id":1081,"date":"2016-01-06T11:34:54","date_gmt":"2016-01-06T11:34:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thepublicationplan.com\/?p=1081"},"modified":"2016-01-06T11:34:54","modified_gmt":"2016-01-06T11:34:54","slug":"open-access-oa-publishing-may-be-linked-to-career-benefits-for-researchers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepublicationplan.com\/2016\/01\/06\/open-access-oa-publishing-may-be-linked-to-career-benefits-for-researchers\/","title":{"rendered":"Open access (#OA) publishing may be linked to career benefits for researchers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p dir=\"LTR\" align=\"LEFT\">A recent\u00a0blog by Altmetric entitled &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.altmetric.com\/blog\/open-access-media-coverage\/\" target=\"_blank\">Open access publications get more media coverage<\/a>&#8221; <span lang=\"EN-GB\">describes a paper written by <a href=\"https:\/\/figshare.com\/articles\/The_open_research_value_proposition_How_sharing_can_help_researchers_succeed\/1619902\" target=\"_blank\">McKiernan et al<\/a> on the potential positive impact of open research on an investigator\u2019s career.<\/span><\/p>\n<p dir=\"LTR\" align=\"LEFT\">Open access publishing is gaining in popularity and there are some associated advantages that researchers may be unaware of. <a href=\"https:\/\/figshare.com\/articles\/The_open_research_value_proposition_How_sharing_can_help_researchers_succeed\/1619902\" target=\"_blank\">McKiernan et al<\/a> suggest that some scientists wrongly assume that open research will be detrimental to their future career prospects. However, in actual fact, the added interest from social media and news outlets that may accompany an open access publication can be linked with\u00a0a number of\u00a0benefits.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"LTR\" align=\"LEFT\">The paper by <a href=\"https:\/\/figshare.com\/articles\/The_open_research_value_proposition_How_sharing_can_help_researchers_succeed\/1619902\" target=\"_blank\">McKiernan et al<\/a>\u00a0describes the social media effect \u2013 open access articles are more likely to be shared via Twitter and Facebook, for example, than non-open access papers &#8211; resulting in increased attention and publicity. As most of our lives revolve around such applications this may result in work getting noticed by a wider audience. This has the potential to lead to media attention for publicly available research, collaborative\u00a0possibilities, and special funding opportunities. The paper also highlights evidence that articles covered by the media garner higher citation rates, which can only be a positive factor to a striving researcher. You can read the full article <a href=\"https:\/\/figshare.com\/articles\/The_open_research_value_proposition_How_sharing_can_help_researchers_succeed\/1619902\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A recent\u00a0blog by Altmetric entitled &#8220;Open access publications get more media coverage&#8221; describes a paper written by McKiernan et al on the potential positive impact of open research on an &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/thepublicationplan.com\/2016\/01\/06\/open-access-oa-publishing-may-be-linked-to-career-benefits-for-researchers\/\" class=\"read-more\">Continue Reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Open access (#OA) publishing may be linked to career benefits for researchers<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_publicize_connection_overrides":[],"_wpas_customize_per_network":false},"categories":[164971,30399336,24853],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1081","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-authorship","category-journal-metrics","category-open-access","post-no-thumbnail"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5Yk5l-hr","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepublicationplan.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1081","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepublicationplan.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepublicationplan.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepublicationplan.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepublicationplan.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1081"}],"version-history":[{"count":14,"href":"https:\/\/thepublicationplan.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1081\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1095,"href":"https:\/\/thepublicationplan.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1081\/revisions\/1095"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepublicationplan.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1081"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepublicationplan.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1081"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepublicationplan.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1081"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}