In this section we call out the reach and overall impact of research made openly available. The following four SDG-related articles were published open access by Dutch authors in Springer Nature journals. The examples show the previously reported OA usage advantage, as witnessed by the high percentage of usage that has occurred outside of Springer Nature’s institutional customer base. The very high number of shares and coverage of these articles in traditional and social media as well as policy documents is certainly supported by their OA status, too.
Case Study 1:River plastic emissions to the world’s oceans
Case Study 2:The representative concentration pathways-an overview
Case Study 3:African migration-trends, patterns, drivers
Case Study 4:The global impact of non-communicable diseases on macro-economic productivity- a systematic review
1. River plastic emissions to the world’s oceans
https://doi.org/10.1038/ncomms15611
Published in Nature Communications, so far this article has been downloaded more than 94K times. 75% of the usage is from users who were not identified as being a Springer Nature institutional customer. It has been mentioned in 78 news stories from 48 outlets, including The Guardian, The New York Times, CNN, National Geographic, Der Spiegal, Die Zeit, The Hindu, and The Japan Times.
This article has been referenced in 16 policy documents, including from The Internal Union for Conservation of Nature, the UK Government and the Food and Agriculture Organization of the UN.Its overall Almetric Attention score is 1,230 and Altmetric has seen 897 tweets so far, with a reach of over 3 million followers.
2. The representative concentration pathways: an overview
https://doi.org/10.1007/s10584-011-0148-z
Published in Climate Change, so far this article has been downloaded more than 136K times. 57% of the usage is from users who were not identified as being a Springer Nature institutional customer. It has been mentioned in 56 news stories from 37 outlets, including de Volkskrant, de Morgen, Forbes, Bloomberg, and The Guardian.
This article has been referenced in 49 policy documents, including from the World Health Organization, the UN Environment Programme, the Publications Office of the EU, and the World Meteorolgoical Organization. Its overall Almetric Attention score is 500 and Altmetric has seen 96 tweets so far, with a reach of over 370K followers.
3. African migration: trends, patterns, drivers
https://doi.org/10.1186/s40878-015-0015-6
Published in Comparative Migration Studies, so far this article has been downloaded more than 84K times. 66% of the usage is from users who were not identified as being a Springer Nature institutional customer. It has been mentioned in 8 news stories.
This article has been referenced in 12 policy documents, including from the African Union, the International Organisation for Migration, and the Food and Agriculture Organization of the UN.
Its overall Almetric Attention score is 219 and Altmetric has seen 218 tweets so far, with a reach of over 650K followers.
4. The global impact of non-communicable diseases on macro-economic productivity: a systematic review
https://doi.org/10.1007/s10654-015-0026-5
Published in the European Journal of Epidemiology, so far this article has been downloaded more than 5K times. 62% of the usage is from users who were not identified as being a Springer Nature institutional customer.
This article has also been referenced in 6 policy documents, including from the World Bank, the World Health Organization, the British Thoracic Society, and the National Academies Press.
Its overall Almetric Attention score is 16 and Altmetric has seen 7 tweets so far, with a reach of 27.6K followers.
