Author Choice of Journal Type Based on Income Level of Country

IF 1.2 4区管理学 0 HUMANITIES, MULTIDISCIPLINARY

Journal of Scholarly Publishing Pub Date : 2021-10-01 DOI:10.3138/jsp.53.1.03

S. Asai

引用次数: 4

Abstract

Abstract:Readers can access open access articles for free, but authors or research funders pay article-processing charges to publish them. This requirement may deter authors in low-income countries from publishing in open access. This study investigates the choices that authors make among three types of open access journal and closed (subscription) journals in history, economics, science, and technology based on their countries’ income level. The sample comprises research articles published in journals in English in 2020 and indexed in Scopus. The results show that authors in low-income countries publish more in gold open access than do authors in lower-middle- and upper-middle-income countries, who tend not to publish in hybrid open access and to favour closed journals. Authors from high-income countries publish more in hybrid open access than do authors in the other groups of countries. Although major publishers waive their article-processing charges for authors in low-income countries, these authors amount to less than 1 per cent of the total. Improving the effectiveness of publishers’ waiver policies is necessary.

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基于国家收入水平的期刊类型作者选择

摘要:读者可以免费获取开放获取文章，但作者或研究资助者需要支付文章处理费才能发表文章。这一要求可能会阻止低收入国家的作者以开放获取方式发表文章。本研究调查了作者在历史、经济、科学和技术三种开放获取期刊和封闭(订阅)期刊中根据其国家收入水平所做的选择。样本包括2020年发表在英文期刊上并在Scopus中检索的研究论文。结果表明，低收入国家的作者在黄金开放获取期刊上发表的文章比中低收入和中高收入国家的作者发表的文章要多，后者往往不倾向于在混合开放获取期刊上发表文章，更喜欢封闭期刊。高收入国家的作者比其他国家的作者发表了更多的混合开放获取论文。虽然主要出版商对低收入国家的作者免收文章处理费，但这些作者只占总数的不到1%。提高出版商豁免政策的有效性是必要的。

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来源期刊

Journal of Scholarly Publishing Multiple-

CiteScore

2.50

自引率

15.40%

发文量

期刊介绍： For more than 40 years, the Journal of Scholarly Publishing has been the authoritative voice of academic publishing. The journal combines philosophical analysis with practical advice and aspires to explain, argue, discuss, and question the large collection of new topics that continually arise in the publishing field. JSP has also examined the future of scholarly publishing, scholarship on the web, digitization, copyright, editorial policies, computer applications, marketing, and pricing models. It is the indispensable resource for academics and publishers that addresses the new challenges resulting from changes in technology and funding and from innovations in production and publishing.