Article processing charges: Mirroring the citation impact or legacy of the subscription-based model?
Article processing charges: Mirroring the citation impact or legacy of the subscription-based model?
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文章处理费用：反映基于订阅的模型的引用影响或遗留问题？
DOI：
10.1162/qss_a_00015
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发表时间：
2020
影响因子：
6.4
通讯作者：
Nina Schönfelder
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作者：
Nina Schönfelder
摘要随着开放获取转型的不断推进，文章处理费（APC）作为科技期刊开放获取出版的主要商业模式之一越来越重要。本文分析了APC的定价在多大程度上可以归因于与期刊相关的因素。英国数据来自OpenAPC（它汇总了大学、资助者和研究机构为开放获取文章支付的费用），APC由以下变量解释：（a）“每篇论文的来源标准化影响”（SNIP），（B）期刊是开放获取还是混合获取，（c）期刊的出版商，（d）期刊的主题领域，（e）年份。多元线性回归分析结果表明，期刊影响力和期刊的综合地位是影响期刊APC水平的最重要因素。然而，APC和SNIP之间的关系是不同的开放获取期刊和混合期刊。支付给开放获取期刊的APC被发现与更高的期刊引用影响力一起强烈增加，而这种关系被观察到对于混合期刊中的文章要松散得多。本文超越了简单的统计，这已经讨论到目前为止，在文献中，通过使用控制变量和应用统计推断。
Abstract With the ongoing open-access transformation, article processing charges (APCs) are gaining importance as one of the main business models for open-access publishing in scientific journals. This paper analyzes how much of APC pricing can be attributed to journal-related factors. With UK data from OpenAPC (which aggregates fees paid for open-access articles by universities, funders, and research institutions), APCs are explained by the following variables: (a) the “source normalized impact per paper” (SNIP), (b) whether the journal is open access or hybrid, (c) the publisher of the journal, (d) the subject area of the journal, and (e) the year. The results of the multivariate linear regression show that the journal’s impact and hybrid status are the most important factors for the level of APCs. However, the relationship between APC and SNIP is different for open-access journals and hybrid journals. APCs paid to open-access journals were found to be strongly increasing in conjunction with higher journal citation impact, whereas this relationship was observed to be much looser for articles in hybrid journals. This paper goes beyond simple statistics, which have been discussed so far in the literature, by using control variables and applying statistical inference.