Leigh-Ann Butler

Biographic Data

ID9458156
NAMELeigh-Ann Butler
GIVEN NAMESLeigh-Ann
FAMILY NAMEButler
SIGNATUREBUTLER L
AFFILIATIONSUniversity of Ottawa
ORCID0000-0002-3385-4729
VERIFIEDYes
TOTAL WORKS2
TOTAL CITATIONS0
WORKS AS AUTHOR2
WORKS AS EDITOR0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR2023
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2024
H-INDEX0

  • We need to rethink the way we identify diamond open access journals in quantitative science studies

    Open AccessMarc-André Simard, Leigh-Ann Butler et al.ARTICLEQuantitative Science Studies2024

    With the announcement of several new diamond open access (OA) related initiatives and the creation of the Global Summit on Diamond Open Access, diamond OA is now at the forefront of the OA movement. However, while working on our recent Quantitative Science Studies publication and data sets, we noticed that temporarily waiving article processing charges (APCs) was a commonly used strategy by big publishers for some of their journals. In the absenc…

  • The oligopoly’s shift to open access

    Open AccessLeigh-Ann Butler, Lisa Matthias et al.ARTICLEQuantitative Science Studies2023

    We aim to estimate the total amount of article processing charges (APCs) paid to publish open access (OA) in journals controlled by the five large commercial publishers (Elsevier, Sage, Springer Nature, Taylor & Francis, and Wiley) between 2015 and 2018. Using publication data from WoS, OA status from Unpaywall, and annual APC prices from open data sets and historical fees retrieved via the Internet Archive Wayback Machine, we estimate that globa…