Open access status of journals and articles in Journal Citation Reports

IF 1.6 Q2 COMMUNICATION

Science Editing Pub Date : 2021-02-20 DOI:10.6087/KCSE.226

Sang-Jun Kim, K. Park

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Abstract

Purpose: There is somewhat of a difference between understanding the open access (OA) concept and practicing it by stakeholders. OA articles are mainly published by gold and hybrid OA journals, but the OA status may be confusing depending on the target databases. This study investigated the OA status of journals and articles and evaluated the extent to which OA2020 (publishing 90% of articles as OA) was achieved. Methods: This study collected OA data by combining 2014-2019 data from Journal Citation Reports at the journal level with Web of Science at the article level. Finally, 12,449 journals were analyzed focusing on gold and hybrid OA journals, and progress towards the goal of OA2020 was evaluated. Results: Even though 80.4% of Journal Citation Reports journals were gold and hybrid OA journals, only 20.9% of the articles were OA (gold OA journals, 16.6%; hybrid journals, 4.3%). The compound annual growth rate of the total articles was 4.7%, that of OA articles was 16.4%, and that of subscription articles was only 1.7%. Among the subscription journals, 77.4% had shifted to become hybrid journals, but only 5.2% of their articles were OA. Therefore, the hybrid journals were at the very early stage of OA publishing. Conclusion: Considerable progress must still be made to achieve the goal of OA2020. The influence of OA publishing will eventually expand and therefore, librarians should take interest in OA publishing for the library services.

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期刊引文报告中期刊和文章的开放获取状态

目的：理解开放获取（OA）概念和利益相关者实践它之间有一定的区别。OA文章主要由黄金和混合OA期刊发表，但根据目标数据库的不同，OA状态可能会令人困惑。本研究调查了期刊和文章的OA状态，并评估了OA2020（以OA形式发表90%的文章）的实现程度。方法：本研究将2014-2019年《期刊引文报告》的期刊级数据与《科学网》的文章级数据相结合，收集OA数据。最后，对12449种专注于黄金期刊和混合OA期刊的期刊进行了分析，并评估了OA2020目标的进展情况。结果：尽管80.4%的期刊引文报告期刊是黄金期刊和混合OA期刊，但只有20.9%的文章是OA（黄金OA期刊，16.6%；混合期刊，4.3%）。总文章的年复合增长率为4.7%，OA文章的年增长率为16.4%，订阅文章的年复增长率仅为1.7%，77.4%的人转向了混合期刊，但他们的文章中只有5.2%是OA。因此，混合期刊处于OA出版的早期阶段。结论：要实现OA2020的目标，还必须取得相当大的进展。OA出版的影响力最终会扩大，因此，图书馆员应该对OA出版产生兴趣，为图书馆服务。

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来源期刊

Science Editing COMMUNICATION-

CiteScore

2.90

自引率

20.00%

发文量

审稿时长

10 weeks

期刊介绍： Science Editing (Sci Ed) is the official journal of the Korean Council of Science Editors (https://kcse.org) and Council of Asian Science Editors (https://asianeditor.org). It aims to improve the culture and health of human being by promoting the quality of editing and publishing scientific, technical, and medical journals. Expected readers are editors, publishers, reviewers, and authors of the journals around the world; however, specially focused to those in Asia. Since scholarly journals in Asia are mostly published by the academic societies, universities, or non-profit organizations, Sci Ed is sought to play a role in journal development. The number of publications from Asia is increasing rapidly and overpass that of other continents; meanwhile, the number of international journals and highly appreciated journals is yet to be coming forward. It is task of Asian editors to pledge the journal quality and broaden the visibility and accessibility. Therefore, its scope includes the followings in the field of science, technology, and medicine.