Investigation on Regional Recognition of Open Access Journals

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10.2991/emcs-16.2016.155How to use a DOI?

Keywords

Open Access; Regional recognition; Highly cited; Kruskal-Wallis test; Wilcoxon test

Abstract

To investigate regional differences in open access among China, USA and Japan, we presented different test methods in contrast distributions of open access journals in SCI-E. We analyzed quartiles in category and influence of open access journals in basic subjects (mathematics, physics, chemistry) by JCR, found top0.10% papers and highly cited papers according to baselines in ESI. The results show that Chinese scholars approved open access journals better than USA and Japan, the ratio is 6.78%; three countries have significant difference in OA overall distribution; OA articles of China increases significantly since 2008, while Japan is relatively stable growth in mathematics, fluctuating in physics and chemistry; three countries publish more than 30% in top 50% journals in the each subject; Chinese scholars issue more than 50% papers in open access journals of chemistry and mathematics; highly cited papers are mostly interdisciplinary research papers or publishing in interdisciplinary journals. Acceptances to OA journals seem likely to incline to some publisher’s country/territory.

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© 2016, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.

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This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).

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TY  - CONF
AU  - Shen Li
AU  - Guang Yu
AU  - Wanfeng Zhang
AU  - Shuang Tan
PY  - 2016/01
DA  - 2016/01
TI  - Investigation on Regional Recognition of Open Access Journals
BT  - Proceedings of the 2016 International Conference on Education, Management, Computer and Society
PB  - Atlantis Press
SP  - 640
EP  - 643
SN  - 2352-538X
UR  - https://doi.org/10.2991/emcs-16.2016.155
DO  - 10.2991/emcs-16.2016.155
ID  - Li2016/01
ER  -