ACCESS Publication Analysis (2022-2025)#
This report examines the publication output of the ACCESS program from 2022 to present (Feb 2025). The publications were extracted from self-reported data provided by active ACCESS users. The data represents publications that are linked to an ACCESS resource, and in many cases directly used ACCESS resources. It should be noted that spurious results may exist, for example, in the case where a researcher listed all publications in their CV over the requested period, regardless of whether they used ACCESS resources directly or not.
Methodology#
The original data was extracted from the database of self-reported publications. This data was cleaned and DOIs were extracted directly from the self-reported data. DOIs were normalized and metadata was extracted from Crossref and OpenAlex.
Crossref metadata contains a number of fields of interest, but the most significant are the journal name and times cited. The times cited data is used throughout this report and whenever citation counts are provide, it is the Crossref times cited data. To learn more about how Crossref calculates this data, please see this. Generally, Crossref citation counts are lower, updated less frequently and more conservative than many other services, but they also tend to be very reliable, even though the direct link back to the citing resource is not provided.
OpenAlex metadata is used to extract topical information about the publications and while it contains citation counts along with backlinks to citing resources, for consistency of reporting, we use Crossref in this report. For future reports, it we may use both.
Altmetric data is used only for the publications with between 8 and 15 citation counts. The decision for this was two-fold: (1) there are many publications with fewer than 8 citations, and while they are interesting to explore, the volume of publications did not align with the goal of highlighting the balance between citations and altmetric attention, (2) publications with more than 15 citations, are already well on their way to gaining attention and interest within their respective communities, thus a high citation count and high altmetric score overshadows those less cited but notable where altmetrics are concerned.
Key Questions Addressed#
This report is not exhaustive in scope, but it is intended to highlight and explore the important scholarly work that the ACCESS infrastructure supports. The report does try to explore a few of the questions below:
How many publications have been associated with the ACCESS project since its 2022 inception?
Which publications have yielded the highest citations?
What fields of study do these publications fall into?
Which are noteworthy Altmetric publications?
What are the trends and other insights about the publications produced during this timeframe?