Impact of Open Access Journals in DOAJ: An Analysis

Abstract

The present study aims to investigate the trend and growth of open access journals at a global level, in DOAJ portal. Study is based on the data taken from the Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ) from 2002 to 2018, a database of fully open access peer-reviewed scholarly journals. Author found that there are 12065 journals indexed in DOAJ on all the field of study. The study presents findings on the contribution to DOAJ by country, year, language, and subject. Study found that, countries like United Kingdom and Indonesia publications are more in this portal and English is the most common communication language. Most of the journals do not charge article processing charges (APCs). Majority journals are Peer Reviewed journals. Medicine and Education related journals are highest in this portal, 11% of the 12065 journals in DOAJ have been awarded DOAJ special tag/designation. Contribution of Elsevier, Sciendo and BioMed Central publishers is more compared to other publications during the study period.