Collaboration between research institutes and large and small publishers for publishing open access journals
Collaboration between research institutes and large and small publishers for publishing open access journals
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DOI：
10.1007/s11192-021-03949-4
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发表时间：
2021-04
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影响因子：
3.9
通讯作者：
S. Asai
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作者：
S. Asai
研究机构经常与营利性出版商合作出版开放获取期刊。本研究采用结构断裂检验，考察了科研机构与大型和小型营利性出版社合作出版15种金牌开放获取期刊对期刊国际化和学术影响力的影响。结果表明，合作后，大多数期刊的国际化程度和学术影响力都有所提高。此外，效果的规模和持久性不取决于发布者的规模。研究结果表明，在为科研机构出版期刊方面，大型出版商并不比小型出版商有任何优势。这意味着小出版社可以与大出版社竞争，为研究机构出版官方期刊。然而，随着与研究机构的合作加强了大型出版商在开放获取期刊市场上的存在，有必要监控它们的活动，包括大型出版商对小型出版商的收购。
Research institutes frequently collaborate with for-profit publishers for the publication of open access journals. This study uses a structural break test to examine the effects of the collaboration between research institutes and large and small for-profit publishers for the publication of 15 gold open access journals on the journals’ internationality and academic influence. The results reveal an improvement in the internationality and academic influence for most of the journals following the collaboration. Additionally, the scale and persistence of the effects are not dependent on the size of the publisher. The findings indicate that large publishers do not have any advantage over small publishers in publishing journals for research institutes. This implies that small publishers can compete with large ones in publishing official journals on behalf of research institutes. However, as collaboration with research institutes strengthens the large publishers’ presence in the open access journal market, it is necessary to monitor their activities, including large publishers’ acquisitions of small ones.