Availability of Open Access journals by scientific fields, specialization and Open Access regulations in the YERUN universities

RODRÍGUEZ, Jorge Mañana; GUNS, Raf

doi:10.1590/2318-0889202234e210064

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ORIGINAL • Transinformação 34 • 2022 • https://doi.org/10.1590/2318-0889202234e210064 copy

Availability of Open Access journals by scientific fields, specialization and Open Access regulations in the YERUN universities

Disponibilidade de revistas de acesso aberto por áreas científicas, especialização e regulamentos Open Access nas universidades YERUN

Authorship SCIMAGO INSTITUTIONS RANKINGS

Abstract

The availability of Open Access journals in the various fields of knowledge in Clarivate Analytics’ Web of Science is hypothesized to present strong inequalities, thus affecting the choice of journals by researchers wishing to publish their research results in Open Access. The first objective of this research was to contrast this hypothesis, by crossing the list of journals available at WoS with the lists of the Directory of Open Access Journals. The availability of OA journals presents strong inequalities, ranging from 5 to 40% depending on the field of knowledge. At the level of universities, such disparity in the availability of Open Access journals is an important factor regarding their accomplishment of Open Access mandates considering their specialization profiles. In this work, as the second objective, the publications available on the Web of Science (from 2016 to 2020) of the universities belonging to the YERUN Network (Young European Research Universities) are studied in order to identify their specialization profiles, their Open Access types (and evolution) and the possible interactions between their specialization and the availability of Open Access journals and their respective fields of specialization. A general overview of the volumes of funded research and the different proportions of Open Access and non-Open Access in funded and non-funded research is also provided. The indicator “Open Access Likelihood” is introduced and applied as a proxy for the likelihood of Open Access publications taking into account the fields of specialization of the YERUN universities. The results of its application underline the need to take into consideration both, specialization and Open Access availability when designing feasible Open Access mandates. Future research includes the study of the availability of Open Access journals by tiers of impact actors.

Keywords
Journal Choice; Open Access; Scientific journals; Thematic specialization

Field of knowledge	Publications (%)	OA journals (%)	OAL
Agricultural sciences	10	30	3
Biology & biochemistry	20	10	2
Chemistry	30	20	6
Clinical medicine	40	40	16
OAL sum	........	........	27

University	Gold (%)	Gold-Hybrid (%)	Free to Read (%)	Green Published (%)	Green Accepted (%)	Green Submitted (%)
Maastricht University	30.45	29.56	20.88	66.39	13.23	21.11
University of Southern Denmark	34.09	14.20	02.29	60.91	13.29	36.18
Antwerp University	30.39	14.03	13.72	55.61	45.3	31.97
Tor Vergata University	39.03	13.15	1.71	61.58	21.65	50.98
Autonomous University of Madrid	42.42	13.02	14.03	58.87	28.24	52.43
University of Ulm	38.63	19.08	24.39	60.52	13.06	27.36
Universidade Nova de Lisboa	48.91	12.52	12.52	64.44	20.75	42.65
University of Eastern Finland	33.07	20.08	16.93	62.27	21.39	27.94
Pompeu Fabra University	39.91	13.05	16.71	63.05	03.07	35.81
University of Bremen	40.89	19.99	13.1	50.02	19.42	42.89
University of Limerick	25.44	11.15	18.1	46.17	23.98	04.06
Brunel University	28.44	29.23	7.21	55.99	36.26	56.08
University of Konstanz	29.47	17.93	12.76	56.08	12.88	55.49
Universidad Carlos III de Madrid	29.53	06.33	08.19	35.82	34.49	47.21
University of Essex	20.14	17.16	08.61	032.7	85.52	28.81
Dublin City University	27.57	10.92	11.72	43.43	34.36	38.23
Cyprus University	40.93	17.76	11.61	60.73	41.12	60.1
University of Rijeka	57.02	8.11	16.22	54.32	11.51	36.36
Paris Dauphine University	10.01	11.16	16.74	14.45	08.73	81.69
Mean percentage (for all YERUN output)	35.47	17.62	13.19	53.19	24.59	35.16

University	OAL
Paris Dauphine University	9.25
University of Essex	12.33
Universidad Carlos III de Madrid	12.41
Brunel University	13.78
Cyprus University	13.83
Dublin City University	13.91
University of Rijeka	14.09
University of Limerick	15.23
University of Konstanz	16.6
Universidade Nova de Lisboa	16.68
Autonomous University of Madrid	16.97
Tor Vergata University	17.08
University of Bremen	17.09
University of Southern Denmark	17.57
Antwerp University	17.6
Maastricht University	17.83
University of Eastern Finland	18.49
University of Ulm	18.5
Pompeu Fabra University	18.6

University	Funded research (%)	OA in funded research (%)	OA in non funded research (%)	Difference in OA % (funded-non funded)
University of Bremen	72.51	83.16	28.61	54.55
University of Konstanz	72.49	82.44	32.12	50.32
University of Ulm	56.98	74.5	25.48	49.02
University of Eastern Finland	74.27	82.92	35.86	47.06
Pompeu Fabra University	76.13	85.06	38.11	46.95
Autonomous University of Madrid	73.37	80.77	35.72	45.05
University of Antwerp	61.79	73.84	29.46	44.38
Cyprus University	61.76	76.49	34.31	42.18
Dublin City University	62.67	71.88	30.43	41.45
Universidad Carlos III de Madrid	77.34	79.75	38.95	40.80
University of Southern Denmark	62.54	73.52	34.82	38.70
Universite Paris-Dauphine	56.52	61.54	25.55	35.99
Universidade Nova de Lisboa	71.69	75.12	39.29	35.83
Tor Vergata	50	64.03	30.87	33.16
University of Limerick	48.21	64.10	32.52	31.58
University of Rijeka	54.17	64.48	36.10	28.38
Maastricht University	53.11	63.47	42.77	20.70
Brunel University	58.28	63.23	48.90	14.33
University of Essex	52.07	60.79	55.71	5.08

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[1] Correspondência para/Correspondence to: J. M. RODRÍGUEZ. E-mail: jorgemarod@gmail.com.