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. 2018 Jan 29;13(1):e0191124. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0191124

Table 1. Univariate and multivariate regression models.

Model: # Google scholar cites Estimate (SE) t value p value OR [CI95%]
Methodological quality High - - -
Moderate -0.237 (0.299) -0.793 ns
Low -0.417 (0.396) -1.052 ns
Funding sources Academic -0.542 (0.291) -1.863 ns
Pharma -0.289 (0.357) -0.808 ns
Authors conflict of interest 0.009 (0.038) 0.253 ns
Impact factor 0.029 (0.059) 0.500 ns
Year of publication 2011 - - -
2012 0.545 (0.944) 0.577 ns
2013 0.629 (0.873) 0.720 ns
2014 -0.383 (0.893) -0.429 ns
2015 -2.156 (0.903) -2.388 <0.016 0.115 [0.019; 0.679]
2016 -3.645 (0.930) -3.917 <0.001 0.026 [0.004; 0.161]
Number of tweets 0.015 (0.020) 0.754 ns
Mendeleys readers 0.033 (0.007) 4.263 <0.001 1.033 [1.018; 1.049]
Model: # Tweets Estimate SE t value OR [CI95%]
Methodological quality High - - -
Moderate 0.627 (0.548) 1.142 ns
Low 0.321 (0.629) 0.510 ns
Funding sources Academic 0.750 (0.557) 1.346 ns
Pharma -0.271 (0.687) -0.394 ns
Authors conflict of interest 0.221 (0.120) 1.833 ns
Impact factor 0.184 (0.051) 3.584 <0.001 1.202 [1.087; 1.329]
Year of publication 2011 - - -
2012 1.316 (0.863) 0.271 ns
2013 1.053 (0.807) 0.406 ns
2014 1.139 (0.811) -2.661 ns
2015 1.360 (0.804) -2.436 ns
2016 0.690 (0.823) -4.26 ns