Table 1.
OAMJs considered in this article.
Table 2.
BMJ Open citation data compared to selected other medical journals.
Fig 1.
Cumulative citation frequency for BMJ Open and other selected medical journals (curves have been smoothed).
Fig 2.
Mega-journal output by year (base 10 logarithmic scale used for y-axis).
Table 3.
OAMJ Output in 2015, and % change from 2014.
Table 4.
Contributions from Chinese, BRIC and Next-Eleven authors.
Table 5.
Medicine’s most frequent contributing author nationalities pre- (2011–2013) and post- (June 2014–2015) mega-journal transition.
Table 6.
Medicine’s most frequent contributing author institutions for 2011–13, and their June 2014-December 2015 publications.
Fig 3.
Proportion of articles with at least one Chinese author.
Table 7.
African authorship of articles in BMJ Open and BMC Research Notes.
Fig 4.
% of PLOS ONE articles indexed by top level subject areas.
Table 8.
Scopus Subject Areas for citing journals as % of total citations for each journal (ranked by difference between PLOS ONE and Scientific Reports).
Table 9.
Citation overview of each OAMJ for articles published in 2013.
Fig 5.
Cumulative citation distributions for all OAMJs based on articles published in 2013 (curves have been smoothed).
Fig 6.
Cumulative citation distributions for the three general science OAMJs, plus selected comparison journals based on articles published in 2013 (curves have been smoothed).
Fig 7.
Cumulative citation distributions for PLOS ONE and Scientific Reports by year based on citations published before the end of the next calendar year (curves have been smoothed).
Fig 8.
Cumulative citation distributions for the three life science OAMJs, plus selected comparison journals based on articles published in 2013 (curves have been smoothed).
Fig 9.
Cumulative Citation Distributions for two medical OAMJs, plus selected comparison journals based on articles published in 2013 (curves have been smoothed).
Table 10.
Weighted Mean SNIP of top 50 citing journals, and proportion of OA citing journals and citations.
Based on citations for articles published between 2011 and 2014.