At Open Research Europe (ORE), we recently celebrated publishing our 100th article on the platform. We are thrilled to have reached this milestone so swiftly, with publications from over 40 countries. In this blog post we will dive into the data behind the first one hundred publications.
Behind the research
To date, these hundred publications have amassed a combined total of 6442 article views, and 2252 article downloads. The Social Sciences are leading the way in numbers, with 28 out of the 100 publications. You can see a full breakdown below:
- Social Sciences – 28
- Natural Sciences: 24
- Engineering and Technology: 22
- Medical and Health Sciences: 13
- Humanities: 11
- Agriculture and Veterinary Science: 2
60% of these publications have been research articles. This diagram shows the split across all the article types on offer at Open Research Europe.
The following five articles have topped the list by receiving the most views overall:
- A genomic exploration of the early evolution of extant cats and their sabre-toothed relatives. You may remember this article from an earlier blog post.
- The abTEM code: transmission electron microscopy from first principles. One of the co-authors is on our Scientific Advisory Board and he discussed his experience of the publishing process in a previous blog post.
- Doctoral Studies as part of an Innovative Training Network (ITN): Early Stage Researcher (ESR) experiences.
- A Google Earth Engine-enabled Python approach to improve identification of anthropogenic palaeo-landscape features.
- Leveraging the trust of nurses to advance a digital agenda in Europe: a critical review of health policy literature.
From our authors
We asked some of our authors for statements regarding their experience with ORE. As can be seen below, the transparency of the process, including the peer review and open access model, is a very attractive element of the platform for all of them:
“We believe that having a transparent reviewing process and open access to scientific results are very important aspects for the scientific community. We are thus very pleased to be the 100th article of Open Research Europe and to contribute in this way to a more transparent and open reviewing process overall!” – Daniela Brites, PhD. Read the research that became our 100th publication on the platform: https://open-research-europe.ec.europa.eu/articles/1-100
Michael Vincent Westbury said: “Open Research Europe offered an exciting new opportunity to present our research in a fully open access manner, including the review process, ensuring the quality of research remains high and is available to a wide readership. For these reasons, we thought it would be interesting to try the new platform.”
“We were thrilled and incredibly proud to learn our article was the first to pass peer review on the platform! I view achieving this milestone as a testimony to not only our hard work to bring the research material together —all while coordinating remotely under the global pandemic conditions—but also to the success of the ORE model. I think the opportunity afforded by ORE to be strategic and thoughtful in identifying peer reviewers can really pay off.” – Ruth Sargent Noyes. Her team’s research was the first article to pass peer review on Open Research Europe.
Phoebe Koundouri said: “I want to encourage all European research leaders to submit their work on ORE in order to showcase one of the transformation pathways towards a more transparent, collaborative and inclusive research community.”
