ACS Publications reaches new heights with 100 million article downloads by researchers worldwide in 2017

The American Chemical Society’s (ACS’) Publications Division achieved a major milestone in 2017, surpassing 100 million full-text journal article downloads during the calendar year. This marks a new global usage record for the 51 peer-reviewed ACS journals, which publish research in chemistry and allied fields. Along with citations and other metrics, full-text usage provides insights on a journal’s influence across the research landscape and reflects the importance of the science encompassed by its editorial scope. The 100-millionth article download took place on Dec. 14, when a reader accessed a 2015 peer-reviewed article published in the journal ACS Nano. The novel interdisciplinary research, titled “Trans-Blood Brain Barrier Delivery of Dopamine-Loaded Nanoparticles Reverses Functional Deficits in Parkinsonian Rats,” was co-authored by Seth, Chaturvedi, Gupta and colleagues, and was undertaken primarily at Council of Scientific & Industrial Research – Indian Institute of Toxicology Research, Lucknow, India. Since its publication, the article has garnered more than 30 citations and nearly 7,000 article views. It was also an ACS Editors’ Choice selection. ACS Editors’ Choice is a Society program offering free public access to published research based on recommendations by the scientific editors of ACS journals. This online usage milestone achievement also underscores the value and importance of ACS journals to the global resear...
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