Market power of publishers in setting article processing charges for open access journals
Market power of publishers in setting article processing charges for open access journals
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DOI：
10.1007/s11192-020-03402-y
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发表时间：
2020-02-29
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影响因子：
3.9
通讯作者：
Asai, Sumiko
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作者：
Asai, Sumiko
虽然开放获取期刊通过期刊网络向读者免费提供文章，但作者必须向出版商支付文章处理费。本研究同时估算了沿着的535种由出版商独立推出的开放获取期刊的文章处理费用，并结合期刊的引文得分和文章数量来确定费用的决定因素。结果表明，开放获取期刊出版商对文章数量较多、被引用频率较高的期刊收取较高的文章处理费。然而，以学术领域文章数量份额平方衡量的集中度并未对收费产生显着影响。此外，这项研究发现，大型订阅期刊出版商通常不会为他们的开放获取期刊设置更高的文章处理费用。相反，他们将已经取得巨大成就的开放获取期刊出版商纳入他们的公司集团。这些研究结果表明，大型订阅期刊出版商可能会影响开放获取期刊市场，通过合并和收购著名的开放获取期刊出版商在未来，虽然他们还没有市场力量。
While open access journals provide readers with articles free of charge through the journals' networks, authors are required to pay article processing charges to the publishers. This study simultaneously estimates the article processing charges for 535 open access journals independently launched by publishers along with citation scores and number of articles in a journal to identify the determinants of charges. The results show that open access journal publishers set higher article processing charges for more frequently cited journals with more articles. However, concentration measured by the share squared of the number of articles in an academic field is not shown to influence the charges significantly. Moreover, this study finds that large subscription journal publishers do not generally set higher article processing charges for their open access journals. Instead, they incorporate open access journal publishers that have already accomplished great achievements into their company groups. These findings suggest that large subscription journal publishers may influence the open access journal market through mergers and acquisitions of prominent open access journal publishers in the future, although they do not yet have market power.