A Crisis in “Open Access”
Should Communication Scholarly Outputs Take 77 Years to Become Open Access
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 16913971 |
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| Authors | Abbas Ghanbari Baghestan (0000-0001-9530-1727, Universiti Sains Malaysia, corresponding author), Hadi Khaniki (Allameh Tabataba'i University), Abdolhosein Kalantari (University of Tehran), Mehrnoosh Akhtari‐Zavare (0000-0002-5811-0240, Islamic Azad University Medical Branch of Tehran), Mehrnoosh Akhtari-Zavare, Elaheh Farahmand (University of Malaya), Ezhar Tamam (Universiti Putra Malaysia), Nader Ale Ebrahim (0000-0001-7091-4439, Alzahra University), Havva Sabani (Vision International University), Mahmoud Danaee (0000-0002-5014-5684, University of Malaya) |
| Year | 2019 |
| Volume | 9 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Publication date | 2019-07-01 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | SAGE Open (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 2158-2440 • E-ISSN: 2158-2440 |
| Publisher | SAGE Publications (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1177/2158244019871044 |
| OpenAlex | W2969696779 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 12 |
This study diachronically investigates the trend of the “open access” in the Web of Science (WoS) category of “communication.” To evaluate the trend, data were collected from 184 categories of WoS from 1980 to 2017. A total of 87,997,893 documents were obtained, of which 95,304 (0.10%) were in the category of “communication.” In average, 4.24% of the documents in all 184 categories were open access. While in communication, it was 3.29%, which ranked communication 116 out of 184. An Open Access Index (OAI) was developed to predict the trend of open access in communication. Based on the OAI, communication needs 77 years to fully reach open access, which undeniably can be considered as “crisis in scientific publishing” in this field. Given this stunning information, it is the time for a global call for “open access” by communication scholars across the world. Future research should investigate whether the current business models of publications in communication scholarships are encouraging open access or pose unnecessary restrictions on knowledge development
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| Highly cited | No |
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