Medical and health sciences academics’ behaviours and attitudes towards open access publishing in scholarly journals: a perspective from South Korea

This article seeks to extend the knowledge of the behaviour and attitudes towards open access publishing through a survey that focusses on the attitudes and behaviours of academic researchers in Korea working in medicine and healthcare. Issues covered include: use of and intentions regarding OAP, and perceptions regarding advantages and disadvantages of OAP, journal article publication services, peer review, and re-use. A significant proportion of the articles (mean 58%) published by this group are published gold open access, consistent with the push in Korea towards international impact for their research. Researchers were more positive about the benefits of OAP than they were negative about its disadvantages. Analysis of responses on the basis of gender, and experience in publishing, showed some significant differences in attitudes to some statements

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Correlation between work impairment, scores of rhinitis severity and asthma using the MASK-air (R) App

Background In allergic rhinitis, a relevant outcome providing information on the effectiveness of interventions is needed. In MASK-air (Mobile Airways Sentinel Network), a visual analogue scale (VAS) for work is used as a relevant outcome. This study aimed to assess the performance of the work VAS work by comparing VAS work with other VAS measurements and symptom-medication scores obtained concurrently. Methods All consecutive MASK-air users in 23 countries from 1 June 2016 to 31 October 2018 were included (14 189 users; 205 904 days). Geolocalized users self-assessed daily symptom control using the touchscreen functionality on their smart phone to click on VAS scores (ranging from 0 to 100) for overall symptoms (global), nose, eyes, asthma and work. Two symptom-medication scores were used: the modified EAACI CSMS score and the MASK control score for rhinitis. To assess data quality, the intra-individual response variability (IRV) index was calculated. Results A strong correlation was observed between VAS work and other VAS. The highest levels for correlation with VAS work and variance explained in VAS work were found with VAS global, followed by VAS nose, eye and asthma. In comparison with VAS global, the mCSMS and MASK control score showed a lower correlation with VAS work. Results are unlikely to be explained by a low quality of data arising from repeated VAS measures. Conclusions VAS work correlates with other outcomes (VAS global, nose, eye and asthma) but less well with a symptom-medication score. VAS work should be considered as a potentially useful AR outcome in intervention studies.Peer reviewe

Can Examination of WWW Usage Statistics and other Indirect Quality Indicators Help to Distinguish the Relative Quality of Medical websites?

BACKGROUND: The Internet offers a great amount of health related websites, but concern has been raised about their reliability. Several subjective evaluation criteria and websites rating systems have been proposed as a help for the Internet users to distinguish among web resources with different quality, but their efficacy has not been proven. OBJECTIVE: To evaluate the agreement of a subset of Internet rating systems editorial boards regarding their evaluations of a sample of pediatric websites. To evaluate certain websites characteristics as possible quality indicators for pediatric websites. METHODS: Comparative survey of the results of systematic evaluations of the contents and formal aspects of a sample of pediatric websites, with the number of daily visits to those websites, the time since their last update, the impact factor of their authors or editors, and the number of websites linked to them. RESULTS: 363 websites were compiled from eight rating systems. Only 25 were indexed and evaluated by at least two rating systems. This subset included more updated and more linked websites. There was no correlation among the results of the evaluation of these 25 websites by the rating systems. The number of inbound links to the websites significantly correlated with their updating frequency (p<.001), with the number of daily visits (p=.005), and with the results of their evaluation by the largest rating system, HealthAtoZ (p<.001). The websites updating frequency also significantly correlated with the results of the websites evaluation by HealthAtoZ, both about their contents (p=.001) and their total values (p<.05). The number of daily visits significantly correlated (p<.05) with the results of the evaluations by Medical Matrix. CONCLUSIONS: Some websites characteristics as the number of daily visits, their updating frequency and, overall, the number of websites linked to them, correlate with their evaluation by some of the largest rating systems on the Internet, what means that certain indexes obtained from the usage analysis of pediatric websites could be used as quality indicators. On the other hand, the citation analysis on the Web by the quantification of inbound links to medical websites could be an objective and feasible tool in rating great amounts of websites

QOI4/361: Quantification of Inbound Links to Pediatric Web Sites as a Tool for Their Evaluation

[This item is a preserved copy and is not necessarily the most recent version. To view the current item, visit http://www.jmir.org/1999/suppl1/e97/ ] Introduction: Some organizations have established a set of minimal standards every medical web site should meet. On the other hand, certain evaluation and rating systems rank plenty of web resources following subjective criteria. Finally, some authors have proposed the citation analysis of medical resources on the Web as a democratic way to evaluate and rank large amounts of medical web sites. Methods: A sample of pediatric web sites compiled from eight evaluation and rating systems which give the results of their evaluation as numeric or analog scales were studied in april 1998 about three characteristics: number of daily visits, time since their last update, and the number of inbound links. The reliability of those three characteristics as quality markers was studied by comparing them to the web sites evaluations, and the same web sites were studied again a year later in order to know their predicitive power as quality indicators. In addition, we studied some cybermetric parameters defined in basis to the number of inbound links and the size of each web site, which were calculated by means of the search engine Infoseek. Results: 363 pediatric web sites were included in the 1998 survey. After removing some not available web sites (11%), we studied 134 domains or subdirectories and 188 web sites in 1999. The variables showed certain stability a year later, that is, the more updated and visited a web site was, and the higher number of inbound links received in 1998, the more updated, visited and linked was in 1999 (rS=0.69, p<0.001; rS=0.87, p<0.001; and rS=0.92, p<0.001, respectively). In the 1999 study, several quality markers were found. So, the number of inbound links, their absolute increment for the last year, the grade of web sites update, and the size (number of pages) of the domains and subdirectories, significantly correlated with their evaluations by the rating systems. Discussion: This study demonstrates not only that certain web sites characteristics are good quality markers of them, but also that they have certain predictive power as quality indicators. Similarly, a dinamic quality parameter has risen, such as the absolute increment of inbound links for a period of time. Certain cybermetric parameters based on the absolute number or the increment of inbound links to a medical web site could be good cybermetric indexes. However, this method have got some technical limitations. For instance, it is sensible to changes in the syntaxis of the web sites URLs, and it depends on the power of the search engine database we employe. In any case, a ranking based on this method would be so reliable as one based in the web sites evaluation by third parties. Moreover, some cybermetric indexes based on this method could provide a means of dinamic evaluation of a given web sit