MJMS: Online First Fact Sheet
What is
Online First?
Online First is a feature offered through MJMS electronic journal platform,
MJMS Online. It allows final revision articles (completed articles
in queue for assignment to an upcoming issue) to be hosted online prior to
their inclusion in a final print and online journal issue. This feature is
commonly referred to as “publish ahead of print,” “publish before print,”
“continuous publishing,” and “P>P.” Access to full-text OnlineFirst articles
are free of charge (MJMS is open access journal).
Benefits of Online First
Online First provides clear benefits to all researchers and users of the
journal’s online content. The feature allows subscribers and members the
ability to access the very latest papers in the field. Authors also benefit
from greatly reduced lead times between submission and publication of
articles. Without Online First, an author's work would only appear online
once a finalized issue was sent to print. However, with Online First,
manuscripts can appear online while other articles are being completed for
an upcoming issue. An author’s research will therefore reach its audience
more quickly, enabling an article to receive greater usage and exposure,
including earlier citation opportunities by related work.
Citations to Online First articles
Each Online First manuscript is citable using the date of the manuscript's
first online posting and the DOI. Digital Object Identifiers (DOI) are
assigned to all MJMS content for use on digital networks and the metadata
associated with that content is registered with the DOI Foundation (www.doi.org).
DOIs provide a persistent, permanent way to identify manuscripts published
in the online environment, even after they are assigned to a print issue.
Information such as volume, issue, and page numbers are not allocated to
OnlineFirst articles (as that information is not known until the issue is
completed), therefore these manuscripts should be cited as follows:
Gogusev J, Chretien Y, Droz D. Aberrant Expression of Polycystin-1 in
Renal Cell Tumors. Maced J Med Sci. Prepublished August, 18,
2008. doi:10.3889/MJMS.1857-5773.2008.0004.
After the article is assigned to a specific issue, new citations can be made
using volume and page number information, while still using the DOI:
Gogusev J, Chretien Y, Droz D. Aberrant Expression of Polycystin-1 in
Renal Cell Tumors. Maced J Med Sci. 2008;1(1):11-16.
doi:10.3889/MJMS.1857-5773.2008.0004.
Each article DOI is registered with CrossRef (www.crossref.org), allowing
permanent resolution to each article and giving publishers the ability to
link their references to articles whenever they are cited.
Transition to a final issue
Once an Online First article is assigned to its final issue and given its
bibliographic data, such as volume, issue, and first page number, the
hosting of the article online transitions from the Online First listing to
that of the completed issue. In other words, users will be able to locate
the article via the journal’s main archive page rather than the Online First
page. Citations using either the DOI or the bibliographic data will both
resolve to the final article. The Online First version of the article will
remain available but as a version to the final article(*v1.pdf). The primary,
completed article will be the prominent article found when linking into the
DOI or article URL.
To view the list of Online First article postings, visit the journal’s
homepage and click on the Online First link at the top of the page.
Do citations to Online First articles get counted in the calculation of
Impact Factors?
Yes; however, according to Thomson Scientific, a citation to an article is
not counted until an article is published in its final issue. For example,
if an article becomes available in 2007 through Online First and is cited in
2007, but isn’t published in its final issue until 2008, the citation will
count for the year 2008 rather than 2007.
Is the Online First article considered final and definitive?
Yes – the article will not change from this version (except by the addition
of pagination and volume/issue data). If errors are identified in this
version then they will only be corrected by use of an erratum (as is the
case for any published article).
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