Table 2.
Baseline characteristics by subject area [35].
| Category and intervention | Open access, n | Journal Impact Factor, mean (SD) | Mendeley saves, mean (SD) | Citation count, mean (SD) | |
| Business, economics, and management | |||||
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Control | 0 | 5.28 (1.59) | 33.99 (43.69) | 1.02 (1.60) |
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TrendMD | 0 | 5.53 (1.55) | 35.38 (35.60) | 1.24 (2.26) |
| Chemical and materials sciences | |||||
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Control | 1 | 26.53 (12.20) | 23.92 (26.95) | 1.53 (7.27) |
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TrendMD | 1 | 31.37 (15.89) | 25.97 (43.57) | 1.58 (6.31) |
| Engineering and computer science | |||||
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Control | 3 | 14.48 (9.74) | 10.44 (16.27) | 0.29 (0.65) |
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TrendMD | 2 | 14.82 (9.93) | 10.27 (16.83) | 0.35 (0.97) |
| Health and medical sciences | |||||
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Control | 11 | 35.98 (22.48) | 37.98 (52.55) | 1.93 (2.29) |
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TrendMD | 7 | 34.42 (21.87) | 38.04 (62.8) | 3.1 (5.55) |
| Humanities, literature, and arts | |||||
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Control | 2 | 2.15 (0.86) | 13.39 (17.36) | 1.06 (2.08) |
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TrendMD | 2 | 2.15 (0.87) | 13.13 (15.97) | 0.95 (2.09) |
| Life sciences and earth sciences | |||||
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Control | 52 | 21.57 (13.8) | 43.33 (53.73) | 0.37 (0.74) |
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TrendMD | 51 | 22.76 (14.42) | 44.13 (52.87) | 0.48 (0.85) |
| Physics and mathematics | |||||
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Control | 10 | 7.67 (5.86) | 8.90 (14.33) | 0.33 (1.09) |
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TrendMD | 11 | 7.74 (5.85) | 9.04 (18.12) | 0.31 (1.29) |
| Social sciences | |||||
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Control | 9 | 4.52 (1.08) | 15.01 (16.56) | 0.36 (1.16) |
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TrendMD | 18 | 4.51 (1.06) | 14.39 (17.27) | 0.35 (1.17) |