Research Article

Open access and Scopus: A new approach to scientific visibility from the standpoint of access

  1. Sandra Miguel1,2,
  2. Zaida Chinchilla-Rodriguez3 and
  3. Félix de Moya-Anegón3

Version of Record online: 11 APR 2011

DOI: 10.1002/asi.21532

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Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology

Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology

Volume 62, Issue 6, pages 1130–1145, June 2011


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Miguel, S., Chinchilla-Rodriguez, Z. and de Moya-Anegón, F. (2011), Open access and Scopus: A new approach to scientific visibility from the standpoint of access. J. Am. Soc. Inf. Sci., 62: 1130–1145. doi: 10.1002/asi.21532

Author Information

  1. 1

    Universidad Nacional de La Plata, Facultad de Humanidades y Ciencias de la Educación, Departamento de Bibliotecología, C/ 48 e/ 7 y 8 La Plata, 1900, Buenos Aires, Argentina

  2. 2

    Grupo de Investigación SCImago, C/ Albasanz, 26–28. Madrid, Spain

  3. 3

    Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas, Centro de Ciencias Humanas y Sociales, Instituto de Políticas y Bienes Públicos, Grupo de investigación SCImago, C/Albasanz, 26–28, Madrid, Spain

Publication History

  1. Issue online: 16 MAY 2011
  2. Version of Record online: 11 APR 2011
  3. Manuscript Accepted: 28 FEB 2011
  4. Manuscript Revised: 18 FEB 2011
  5. Manuscript Received: 3 AUG 2010

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Abstract

The last few years have seen the emergence of several open access (OA) options in scholarly communication, which can be grouped broadly into two areas referred to as gold and green roads. Several recent studies have shown how large the extent of OA is, but there have been few studies showing the impact of OA in the visibility of journals covering all scientific fields and geographical regions. This research presents a series of informative analyses providing a broad overview of the degree of proliferation of OA journals in a data sample of about 17,000 active journals indexed in Scopus. This study shows a new approach to scientific visibility from a systematic combination of four databases: Scopus, the Directory of Open Access Journals, Rights Metadata for Open Archiving

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