Year: 2016
Type: report
Abstract: This paper investigates the characteristics of paper publication of open access (OA) journals and those of major countries (Japan, US, Germany, France, UK, China and South Korea).For journal's features, this paper categorizes journals into 4 types (Domestic Non-OA, Foreign Non-OA, Domestic OA, and Foreign OA), using two viewponts: whether the journal is OA journal and whether the journal's publication country is own country (domestic journal).Language, international collaboration, and being cited by foreign countries are analyzed as paper's features.This paper analyzes the situations of 2004-2012, using Scopus database from the aspect of coverage of journals and languages.Main findings of characteristics of OA journals' papers are following four points.(1) The ratio of using English papers is notably high even in non-Engilish-speaking countries.(2) The international collaboration ratio is high.(3) The ratio of foreign countries that cite OA journals papers is high.The number of countries that cite OA journals papers is also high.(4) Foreign OA journals' papers are more cited by non-major countries.
Author: Fukuzawa Naomi
Language: Japanese
Subfield: Library and Information Sciences
Field: Social Sciences
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W2746810812