This paper offers a cross-country and cross-disciplinary analysis of the development of open access publishing from 2000 to 2019. Through an analysis of seven world regions and nine scholarly fields, we found that, while the overall share of
open access journals has increased significantly over the last two decades, there are
important differences across both the analyzed world regions and disciplines. We
also found that, with the exception of neuroscience, the proportion of open access
journals is considerably lower among the journals ranked in the Q1 quartile of Scopus than in the general field. We also offer a model that explains the development of open access publishing trends on different disciplinary and geographical levels. Read Full Text
The International Development of Open Access Publishing:
A Comparative Empirical Analysis Over Seven World
Regions and Nine Academic Disciplines
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