Year: 2016
Type: article
Abstract: With the rapid growth of open access journal publishing, it is possible for no barriers on international academic communication and sharing.Meanwhile, it accelerates the global knowledge innovation and massive dissemination.However, there has been an ongoing debate on its quality since open access journals appear.This article plots both geography and subject distribution of open access journals indexed in Scopus and/or ISI Web of Science, and compares the means of Impact Factor, Source Normalized Impact per Paper, Impact per Publication and SCImago Journal Ranking between open access journals and subscription journals.Moreover, it differentiates their growth speed on above scientific impact indicators.It aims to clarify current level and potentialities of open access journals so as to assist in establishing right recognition and right using of open access journals for scientific communities.
Author: Juan Chen
Language: English
Subfield: Library and Information Sciences
Field: Social Sciences
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W2530683234