Are we paying-to-play? A quantitative assessment of Canadian open access research in ecology and evolution

FACETS

Aaron B.A. Shafer¹ 

[1] Department of Forensic Science, Trent University, Peterborough, ON K9J 7B8, Canada Environmental and Life Sciences Graduate Program, Trent University, Peterborough, ON K9J 7B8, Canada;

关键词: publishing;    article processing charges;    journals;    bibliometrics;    h-index;   

DOI  :  10.1139/facets-2020-0040

来源: DOAJ

【 摘 要 】

Open access (OA) allows for peer-reviewed research to be freely accessed and there has been a collective shift from both researchers and publishers towards more OA publishing. OA typically occurs either through article-processing charges (the gold road) or via self-archiving (the green road); the former can be expensive, while the latter has seen minimal uptake. The gold road of OA has led to predatory publishers and, to some, questionable publications. Here, I used publicly available grant information in Canada and combined this with individual publishing statistics to test a variety of factors and their influence on OA publishing. I showed that an individual’s award amount, H-index, and gender did not influence the proportion of OA articles they published, but an individual’s H-index scaled with the number of OA publications. Institute size influenced OA publishing patterns, with researchers at large universities (i.e., >20 000 full-time students) publishing proportionately more OA articles than medium and small institutes. I discuss the potential for this pattern to build on pre-existing systemic biases when it comes to funding and publishing.

【 授权许可】

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