Comparing Altmetric Scores of 2014 Top 25 Paywalled and Top 25 Open Access Outputs

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Top 25 Paywalled Outputs in 2014 Altmetric Top 100 List

Altmetric Score in timeframe	Title	Journal	URL
4822.008	Variation in Melanism and Female Preference in Proximate but Ecologically Distinct Environments	Ethology	http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/eth.12282
3499.068	Artificial sweeteners induce glucose intolerance by altering the gut microbiota	Nature	http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/nature13793
2985.992	Stimulus-triggered fate conversion of somatic cells into pluripotency	Nature	http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/nature12968
2065.172	Genomic surveillance elucidates Ebola virus origin and transmission during the 2014 outbreak	Science	http://dx.doi.org/10.1126/science.1259657
1868.194	High-resolution global maps of 21st-century forest cover change	Science	http://dx.doi.org/10.1126/science.1244693
1837.974	Association of nut consumption with total and cause-specific mortality	New England Journal of Medicine	http://dx.doi.org/10.1056/nejmoa1307352
1767.556	Female Penis, Male Vagina, and Their Correlated Evolution in a Cave Insect	Current Biology	http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.cub.2014.03.022
1691.35	Does Nursing Assistant Certification Increase Nursing Student’s Confidence Level of Basic Nursing Care When Entering a Nursing Program?	Journal of Professional Nursing	http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.profnurs.2013.09.002
1596.304	Observation of Dirac monopoles in a synthetic magnetic field	Nature	http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/nature12954
1570.614	Bidirectional developmental potential in reprogrammed cells with acquired pluripotency	Nature	http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/nature12969
1450.328	Post-study caffeine administration enhances memory consolidation in humans	Nature Neuroscience	http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/nn.3623
1426.218	A semi-synthetic organism with an expanded genetic alphabet	Nature	http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/nature13314
1403	The Pen Is Mightier Than the Keyboard: Advantages of Longhand Over Laptop Note Taking	Psychological Science	http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0956797614524581
1379.79	Sleep Deprivation and False Memories	Psychological Science	http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0956797614534694
1343.46	Global sodium consumption and death from cardiovascular causes	New England Journal of Medicine	http://dx.doi.org/10.1056/nejmoa1304127
1333.33	Nurse staffing and education and hospital mortality in nine European countries: a retrospective observational study	The Lancet	http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/s0140-6736(13)62631-8
1280.024	An estimation of the number of cells in the human body	Annals of Tropical Medicine & Parasitology	http://dx.doi.org/10.3109/03014460.2013.807878
1242.21	Young blood reverses age-related impairments in cognitive function and synaptic plasticity in mice	Nature Medicine	http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/nm.3569
1208.974	An Earth-Sized Planet in the Habitable Zone of a Cool Star	Science	http://dx.doi.org/10.1126/science.1249403
1180.632	Effects of Low-Carbohydrate and Low-Fat Diets: A Randomized Trial	Annals of Internal Medicine	http://dx.doi.org/10.7326/m14-0180
1140.892	Emergence of Zaire Ebola Virus Disease in Guinea – Preliminary Report	New England Journal of Medicine	http://dx.doi.org/10.1056/nejmoa1404505
1076.698	Social psychology. Just think: the challenges of the disengaged mind.	Science	http://dx.doi.org/10.1126/science.1250830
1026.624	Vaccines are not associated with autism: An evidence-based meta-analysis of case-control and cohort studies	Vaccine	http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.vaccine.2014.04.085
1017.118	Ebola Virus Disease in West Africa – The First 9 Months of the Epidemic and Forward Projections	New England Journal of Medicine	http://dx.doi.org/10.1056/nejmoa1411100
1017.05	The complete genome sequence of a Neanderthal from the Altai Mountains	Nature	http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/nature12886

Top 25 Open Access Outputs in 2014 Altmetric Top 100 List

Score in timeframe	Title	Journal	URL
5043.756	Experimental evidence of massive-scale emotional contagion through social networks	Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America	http://dx.doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1320040111
2955.068	Dogs are sensitive to small variations of the Earth’s magnetic field	Frontiers in Zoology	http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1742-9994-10-80
2733.264	Christmas 2013: Research: The survival time of chocolates on hospital wards: covert observational study	British Medical Journal	http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/bmj.f7198
2391.834	Epidemiological modeling of online social network dynamics	arXiv	http://fr.arxiv.org/abs/1401.4208
2245.134	Searching the Internet for evidence of time travelers	arXiv	http://arxiv.org/abs/1312.7128
2159.53	Conscious Brain-to-Brain Communication in Humans Using Non-Invasive Technologies	PLOS ONE	http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0105225
2145.898	Were James Bond’s drinks shaken because of alcohol induced tremor?	British Medical Journal	http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/bmj.f7255
1693.21	Sliding Rocks on Racetrack Playa, Death Valley National Park: First Observation of Rocks in Motion	PLOS ONE	http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0105948
1692.7	Information Preservation and Weather Forecasting for Black Holes	arXiv	http://arxiv.org/abs/1401.57
1478.518	Bodily maps of emotions	Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America	http://dx.doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1321664111
1422.932	Milk intake and risk of mortality and fractures in women and men: cohort studies	British Medical Journal	http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/bmj.g6015
1248.87	Female hurricanes are deadlier than male hurricanes	Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America	http://dx.doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1402786111
1137.826	The hipster effect: When anticonformists all look the same	arXiv	http://arxiv.org/abs/1410.8001
1119.952	A Gigantic, Exceptionally Complete Titanosaurian Sauropod Dinosaur from Southern Patagonia, Argentina	Scientific Reports	http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/srep06196
1073.29	Skeletal Muscle PGC-1α1 Modulates Kynurenine Metabolism and Mediates Resilience to Stress-Induced Depression	Cell	http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.cell.2014.07.051
1067.73	Survey of Academic Field Experiences (SAFE): Trainees Report Harassment and Assault	PLOS ONE	http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0102172
1059.886	Volatile disinfection byproducts resulting from chlorination of uric acid: Implications for swimming pools	Environmental Science & Technology	http://dx.doi.org/10.1021/es405402r
956.824	How to make more published research true	PLOS Medicine	http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pmed.1001747
934.958	Low Protein Intake Is Associated with a Major Reduction in IGF-1, Cancer, and Overall Mortality in the 65 and Younger but Not Older Population	Cell Metabolism	http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.cmet.2014.02.006
898.424	Dendrogramma, New Genus, with Two New Non-Bilaterian Species from the Marine Bathyal of Southeastern Australia (Animalia, Metazoa incertae sedis) with Similarities to Some Medusoids from the Precambrian Ediacara	PLOS ONE	http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0102976
880.038	Sex differences in the structural connectome of the human brain	Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America	http://dx.doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1316909110
873.144	Identifiable Images of Bystanders Extracted from Corneal Reflections	PLOS ONE	http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0083325
869.706	Nutrition and Health – The Association between Eating Behavior and Various Health Parameters: A Matched Sample Study	PLOS ONE	http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0088278
842.594	No Evidence of Dehydration with Moderate Daily Coffee Intake: A Counterbalanced Cross-Over Study in a Free-Living Population	PLOS ONE	http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0084154
830.81	Oxytocin enhances brain reward system responses in men viewing the face of their female partner	Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America	http://dx.doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1314190110