Open access and international coauthorship
A longitudinal study of the United Arab Emirates research output
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 21255840 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Mohamed Boufarss (0000-0002-2403-0146, Tampere University), Mikael Laakso (0000-0003-3951-7990, Hanken School of Economics) |
| Year | 2023 |
| Volume | 4 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 372-393 |
| Publication date | 2023-05-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Quantitative Science Studies (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 2641-3337 • E-ISSN: 2641-3337 |
| Publisher | MIT Press (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1162/qss_a_00256 |
| OpenAlex | W4366772809 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
| References cited | 52 |
We investigate the interplay between open access (OA), coauthorship, and international research collaboration. Although previous research has dealt with these factors separately, there is a knowledge gap in how these interact within a single data set. The data includes all Scopus-indexed journal articles published over 11 years (2009–2019) where at least one of the authors has an affiliation to a United Arab Emirates institution (30,400 articles in total). To assess the OA status of articles, we utilized Unpaywall data for articles with a digital object identifier, and manual web searches for articles without. There was consistently strong growth in publication volume counts as well as shares of OA articles across the years. The analysis provides statistically significant results supporting a positive relationship between a higher number of coauthors (in particular international) and the OA status of articles. Further research is needed to investigate potentially explaining factors for the relationship between coauthorship and increased OA rate, such as implementation of national science policy initiatives, varying availability of funding for OA publishing in different countries, patterns in adoption of various OA types in different coauthorship constellations, and potentially unique discipline-specific patterns as they relate to coauthorship and OA rate
Data science · Identifier · Institution · Library science · MEDLINE · Open access publishing · Political science · Publishing · Scopus · Web of science · Academic Publishing and Open Access · Computer Science · scientometrics and bibliometrics research
Applied Logistic Regression
Analysing Scientific Networks Through Co-Authorship
The state of OA
What is research collaboration?
Research collaboration and productivity
Paradox of research productivity of higher education institutions in Arab Gulf countries
Is open access publication useful for all research fields? Presence of funding, collaboration and impact
Octopus affiliations
Charting the Open Access scholarly journals landscape in the UAE
Google Scholar, Microsoft Academic, Scopus, Dimensions, Web of Science, and OpenCitations’ Coci
Open Sesame? Open access priorities, incentives, and policies among higher education institutions in the United Arab Emirates
Analyzing scientific mobility and collaboration in the Middle East and North Africa
Open access at the national level
Assessing the quality of bibliographic data sources for measuring international research collaboration
Recalibrating the scope of scholarly publishing
Research coauthorship 1900–2020
The journal coverage of Web of Science and Scopus
| Unique citing works | 1 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 1 |
| Citation span | 2025 - 2025 (1) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 1 |