Investigation of the degree to which articles supported by research grants are published in open access health and life sciences journals

Wang, Ling Ling; Liu, Xuan Zhen; Fang, Hui

doi:10.1007/s11192-015-1624-4

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“…They employ quantitative analyses with sample size ranging from around 100 to 2,000 journals. Most of the studies apply descriptive statistics and compare means, accompanied with scatter plots and histograms, while some also use correlation analyses (Bjoerk & Solomon, 2014Hagenhoff, Blumenstiel & Ortelbach, 2008;Pinfield, Salter & Bath, 2016Romeu et al, 2014;Solomon & Bjoerk, 2012aWang, Liu & Fang, 2015;Yuen, Muquit & Whitfield, 2018). More sophisticated data analyses are conducted by M. Smith et al (2016) and Schoenfelder (2018).…”

Section: Building Up Article Processing Chargementioning

confidence: 99%

“…Solomon and Bjoerk (2012b), Bjoerk and Solomon (2015), Pinfield et al (2017) and define journal quality as journal impact. Bjoerk (2012a), Yuen et al (2018), Romeu et al (2014), Bjoerk and Solomon (2014) and Wang et al (2015) study journal impact directly. Most of them employ the Journal Impact Factor (JIF) from Citation Reports (JCR) Web of Science (Romeu et al, 2014;Solomon & Bjoerk, 2012b;Wang et al, 2015).…”

Section: Building Up Article Processing Chargementioning

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Drivers of Article Processing Charges in Open Access

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Large publishing companies have been dominating scientific publishing for long, which leads to high subscription fees and inhibited access to scientific knowledge. At digital era, the opportunity of an unrestricted access appears feasible, because the cost of publishing should be low. It is no longer the readers and libraries to pay subscription fees, but scientific organizations and authors themselves who pay for the cost of having their article published. As the data shows, there is a tremendous variance of article processing charges (APC) across journals, which obviously cannot be explained by the costs. One of the explanatory variables could be reputation, but it only contributes less than 5% to the variance in APC. This study is meant to shed light on the various determinants of APC. Based on data from the OpenAPC Initiative, the Directory of Open Access Journals, the Journal Impact Factor and the Essential Science Indicators of Web of Science, we employ ANOVA and multivariate regressions. The results show that market power plays an important role to explain APCs, inter alia, through market concentration, market position of individual publishers (publisher size), and the choice of hybrid publishing model.

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Drivers of Article Processing Charges in Open Access

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“…But instead of ranking journals based on a network of hyperlinks, Eigenfactor uses citations from the academic literature. Wang, Liu, and Fang (2015) analyzed the relationship between the Impact Factor and APC prices charged by open access journals in Health and Life Sciences indexed on the Web of Science database, attesting to a wide variation in the APC prices within similar Impact Factor ranges, from which we can deduce a low correlation between these variables. In Brazil, a system for journal classification -established by the regulatory agency of the national higher education system, National Council for Scientific and Technological Development (Capes, Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior) and acknowledged by the Brazilian scientific community -has been an alternative for the use of the aforementioned metrics.…”

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The adoption of Article Processing Charges as a business model by Brazilian Open Access journals

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Albagli

2019

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Este artigo foi submetido e avaliado na sessão para temáticas gerais. No entanto, pela proximidade do tema proposto para a presente edição, os autores foram convidados e aceitaram transferir o texto aceito para a edição "Métricas Alternativas e Ciência Aberta na América Latina". AbstractDiff erent funding and business model alternatives for Open Access to scientifi c publication have been discussed and tried, either by Gold open access journals or by the 'hybrid' ones. A growing number of both types of scholarly journals have adopted a publication fee -more specifi cally an Article Processing Charge -as their open access business model, a procedure that has been the subject of controversies. The objective of this study is to characterize Brazilian open access journals that adopt article processing charges. The main contribution of this study is to audit and support decision making of editorial policies and business models for open access that are being proposed by and for Brazilian journals. We defi ned a sample of Brazilian open access journals using article processing charges extracted from the Directory of Open Access Journals database in April 2018 along with their classifi cation in the Scimago Journal Ranking, Journal Citation Reports and Qualis Capes system, considered as an indicator of prestige of academic journals. The study reveals that a small number of Brazilian open access journals are currently applying article processing charges, with practices varying mainly according to fi elds of study, types of organization and classifi cation according to the Qualis system. ResumoDiferentes alternativas de fi nanciamento e de modelos de negócio para o acesso aberto às publicações científi cas vêm sendo discutidas e testadas, tanto por periódicos da chamada via dourada, quanto por periódicos híbridos. Um crescente número dessas duas modalidades de periódicos tem adotado uma taxa de publicação -mais especifi camente uma Taxa de Processamento de Artigo -como seu modelo de negócio, o que tem sido tema de controvérsias. O objetivo deste estudo é apresentar características de periódicos brasileiros de acesso aberto que adotam taxas de processamento de artigos. A principal contribuição do estudo reside em subsidiar e ´auditar´ políticas editoriais e modelos de negócio para o acesso aberto que vêm sendo propostos para e por parte dos periódicos TransInformação, Campinas, 31:e180045, 2019 http://dx.

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“…In the case of India, a substantial number of low-APC journals would have been used. Wang et al 22 have found that APC varies from region to region. European and North American APC OA journals have an average charge of more than US$ 2000, while Asian, African and South American APC OA journals have an average charge of less than US$ 1000 (ref.…”

Section: Potential Expenditure On Apc Seen In Perspectivementioning

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“…European and North American APC OA journals have an average charge of more than US$ 2000, while Asian, African and South American APC OA journals have an average charge of less than US$ 1000 (ref. 22). …”

Section: Potential Expenditure On Apc Seen In Perspectivementioning

confidence: 99%