Scholarly Journal Publishing and Open Access in South Korea

Shin, Eun-Ja

doi:10.1016/j.serrev.2012.05.001

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“…Regarding journal type, South Korea is a competitive producer of prestigious journals in East Asia. The relatively high proportion of South Korea's OA journals is consistent with previous research [3] in that journals published in South Korea have been switching over to OA. The fact that South Korea has published more OA journals than other East Asian countries may have contributed to more citations.…”

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confidence: 87%

“…The NRF's Korean Citation Index (KCI) is important for Korean journals, although it mainly aims to support Korean domestic research regardless of its inclusion in international databases [2]. As pointed out by Shin [3], the number of English-language international journals should be increased in order to publish a large number of prestigious international journals.…”

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confidence: 99%

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Comparison of the open access status and metrics of Scopus journals published in East Asian countries: a descriptive study

Kim¹,

Jeong²

2023

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Purpose: The objective of this study was to compare Scopus journals published in East Asian countries—China, Japan, South Korea, and Taiwan—in terms of their open access status and metrics and to explore the implications of those findings for South Korea.Methods: To conduct this study, we selected four East Asian countries: China, Japan, South Korea, and Taiwan. We used journal information provided by SCImago Journal Rank (SJR) and Scopus. The following parameters were analyzed for journals published in East Asian countries: open access status, subject categories, quartiles, number of published documents, h-index, publishers, and citation rate.Results: In all East Asian countries, numerous commercial publishers publish journals. One exception is Science Press, a Chinese government-sponsored publisher, which published the largest number of journals in the East Asian region. Japan had the highest median number of years covered by SJR. However, the proportion of Q1 journals in Japan was the lowest of the East Asian countries. South Korea had the highest proportion of Q1 journals in the country’s total journal production. Publishers in South Korea published more open access journals than any other East Asian country. Despite publishing a high proportion of prestigious journals, South Korea lagged behind China and Japan in the number of Scopus-indexed journals.Conclusion: The findings indicate that South Korea has made significant progress in locally producing influential journals over the years. However, more efforts to publish international journals are required for South Korea to increase the number of Scopus journals.

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Comparison of the open access status and metrics of Scopus journals published in East Asian countries: a descriptive study

Kim¹,

Jeong²

2023

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“…The status of OA journals was also investigated in various research fields, such as library and information science (Mukherjee, 2009;Yuan and Hua, 2011;Xia, 2012;Chen et al, 2016), computer science (Lawrence, 2001), psychology (Shin, 2003), pharmacy (Murali et al, 2004), physics (Harnad and Brody, 2004), medicine (Sahu et al, 2005), communication (Zhang, 2006), biology (Frandsen, 2009) and business and management (Lyons and Booth, 2011). Moreover, a considerable number of studies examined the status of OA journals and publishing in specific countries and world regions, like Zimbabwe (Nyambi and Maynard, 2012), South Korea (Shin, 2012), China (Hu et al, 2012), India (Sawant, 2013), the Netherlands (Woutersen-Windhouwer, 2013), Argentina (Miguel et al, 2013) and D8 countries (Ghane and Niazmand, 2016).…”

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Status and quality of open access journals in Scopus

Erfanmanesh

2017

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Emerald is a global publisher linking research and practice to the benefit of society. The company manages a portfolio of more than 290 journals and over 2,350 books and book series volumes, as well as providing an extensive range of online products and additional customer resources and services. Emerald is both COUNTER 4 and TRANSFER compliant. The organization is a partner of the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE) and also works with Portico and the LOCKSS initiative for digital archive preservation.

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“…This resulted in an incredible increase in the number of journals and increased accessibility of research outputs for a much wider audience. However, because of the increase in journal subscription costs and declining library funds, the development of libraries has been hindered (Iton and Iton, 2016; Shin, 2012; Singh, 2016). A huge number of libraries all over the world have encountered budget cuts in recent years.…”

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Faculty awareness, use and attitudes towards scholarly open access: A Pakistani perspective

Sheikh

2017

Journal of Librarianship and Information Science

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Open access is a new scholarly publishing model that aims to provide free access to scholarly information to all members of society. This study analyzes the awareness, use and attitudes of Pakistani faculty members towards scholarly open access. A structured questionnaire was designed to collect data from the respondents by using an online survey tool, Google Forms. The population of the study was the faculty members of 21 universities and higher education institutions located in Islamabad. A sample of 3000 faculty members were invited, through email, to participate in the study; of which 616 completed the survey, with a response ratio of 20.53%. Descriptive statistics and (SPSS) version 21.0 were used for data analysis. The findings of the study reveal that, although majority of the Pakistani faculty members (71.5%) were aware of the scholarly open access before this survey, their awareness level about open access-related resources and initiatives was very low. The Pakistani faculty members used open access venues more frequently to access scholarly contents rather than to publish their own research works. A lack of awareness to publish in open access venues, and publication fees of open access journals were the key challenges faced by the Pakistani faculty members. The attitudes of faculty members towards open access were very positive in all contexts. Large readership, impact factor, free access to readers and no publication fee were the key motivational factors for the faculty members to publish in open access journals.

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Scholarly Journal Publishing and Open Access in South Korea

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Comparison of the open access status and metrics of Scopus journals published in East Asian countries: a descriptive study

Comparison of the open access status and metrics of Scopus journals published in East Asian countries: a descriptive study

Status and quality of open access journals in Scopus

Faculty awareness, use and attitudes towards scholarly open access: A Pakistani perspective

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