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Examining the geographic and linguistic coverage of gold and diamond open access journals in OpenAlex, Scopus, and Web of Science.
Diamond open access (OA) journals are a publishing model that is free for both authors and readers, but their lack of indexing in major bibliographic databases compared to gold journals presents challenges in assessing their uptake. Furthermore, the characteristics of diamond journals, such as language and country of publication, have often been used to support […] Lire la suite
Shine bright like a diamond: A bibliometric analysis of diamond Open Access journals and their coverage in Web of Science, Scopus and OpenAlex
The Budapest Open Access Initiative (2002) advocated for a new generation of journals that would rely on alternative sources of funding to support Open Access (OA) dissemination. Author fees or article processing charges (APCs) have now become one of the most common sources of funding for OA journals. These APCs dominate the public discourse surrounding […] Lire la suite
The relationship between open access publishing and referencing
This paper reinforces the necessity of normalizing OA adoption by discipline and country, as suggested and practiced in earlier works. Using such measures, we can identify countries for which OA has become characteristic of their publications, with OA papers informing their research as well as serving as an avenue to share their research with the […] Lire la suite
Geographic differences in the uptake of diamond open access and APCs.
Geographical and income level analyses have shown that gold OA journals tend to be much more expensive in the Western world and in richer countries compared to other regions where APCs are generally much cheaper and skewed by a minority of expensive journals (Figure 4). Despite that, APCs often dominate the conversation regarding the sustainability […] Lire la suite