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Open Book Collective

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Research works
3
fractional, all time
Citations
1
0.3 per fractional work
Top-10% rate
3.5%
all institutions 10.0%
Open access
100%
world 40%
Open Book Collective

Not ranked overall: Open Book Collective is under the volume floor below which an excellence rate is noise. Not ranked is not the same as ranked last.

Which fields of science does Open Book Collective work in?

In all years, 79% of research at Open Book Collective is in Social Sciences, 21% in Physical Sciences. Its largest fields are Arts and Humanities (29%), Decision Sciences (26%), Social Sciences (24%). It does 1.5× the world's share of Social Sciences.

Social Sciences: 3 fractional works · 79.4% of its workArts and Humanities: 1 fractional works · 29.4% of its workDecision Sciences: 1 fractional works · 26.5% of its workSocial Sciences: 1 fractional works · 23.5% of its workPhysical Sciences: 1 fractional works · 20.6% of its workComputer Science: 1 fractional works · 20.6% of its workALL ITS WORKOpen BookCollective3fractional works, all years
Physical Sciences21%Social Sciences79%

Each ring splits the one inside it: the four domains of science, their fields. Size is fractional works in all years. Every slice is a page; the interactive view zooms down to single topics and colours each by how much more of it this institution does than the world.

Its 2 domains and 4 fields, with their numbers
    1. Arts and Humanities129.4%
    2. Decision Sciences126.5%
    3. Social Sciences123.5%
    1. Computer Science120.6%
All of science, and how each field's share has moved since 1950: the Science domain explorer

What are the most cited papers from Open Book Collective?

The most cited paper from Open Book Collective is "Seeding for a not-for-profit community-led OA books ecosystem" (Tobias Steiner, Lucy Barnes, Judith May Fathallah et al., 2025), with 2 citations. Next come "Open access, open infrastructures, and their funding: Learning from histories to more effectively enhance diamond OA ecologies for books" (2) and "The Copim perspective on Sustainability" (1).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 Seeding for a not-for-profit community-led OA books ecosystem Tobias Steiner, Lucy Barnes, Judith May Fathallah et al. Open access 16 Apr 2025 2
2 Open access, open infrastructures, and their funding: Learning from histories to more effectively enhance diamond OA ecologies for books Kira Hopkins, Kevin Sanders · Journal of Librarianship and Scholarly Communication Open access 22 Nov 2024 2
3 The Copim perspective on Sustainability Lucy Barnes, Judith May Fathallah, Tobias Steiner et al. Open access 12 Dec 2024 1
4 Lightning talks Benjamin Schuster‐Böckler, A Rooney, J Fathallah et al. · Oxford University Research Archive (ORA) (University of Oxford) Conference paperOpen access 2025 0
5 Han Solo Needs a Hug: What Fandom Communities Can Teach Scholarly Publishing Caroline Ball · Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research) Conference paperOpen access 30 Mar 2026 0
All 14 most cited papers, with filters and sorting

Which research topics does Open Book Collective publish most on?

By volume in 2022-now: Academic Publishing and Open Access, Publishing and Scholarly Communication, Research Data Management Practices and Intellectual Property Law.

Academic Publishing and …1Academic Publishing and Open Access: 1 fractional worksPublishing and Scholarly Communication: 1 fractional worksResearch Data Management Practices: 1 fractional worksIntellectual Property Law0Intellectual Property Law: 0 fractional worksLibraries and Informatio…0Libraries and Information Services: 0 fractional worksService-Learning and Community Engagement: 0 fractional worksLibrary Science and Administration: 0 fractional worksICT in Developing Communities: 0 fractional worksscientometrics and bibliometrics research: 0 fractional worksLibrary Collection Development and Digital Resources: 0 fractional works
Information Systems and ManagementHistory and Philosophy of ScienceInformation SystemsLaw4 others

Area is fractional works; colour is the subfield each topic belongs to.

  1. 1 Academic Publishing and Open Access Information Systems and Management 1 works
  2. 2 Publishing and Scholarly Communication History and Philosophy of Science 1 works
  3. 3 Research Data Management Practices Information Systems 1 works
  4. 4 Intellectual Property Law Law 0 works
  5. 5 Libraries and Information Services Museology 0 works
  6. 6 Service-Learning and Community Engagement Education 0 works
  7. 7 Library Science and Administration Library and Information Sciences 0 works
  8. 8 ICT in Developing Communities Information Systems 0 works
  9. 9 scientometrics and bibliometrics research Statistics, Probability and Uncertainty 0 works
  10. 10 Library Collection Development and Digital Resources Information Systems 0 works

How open and international is its research?

Against the world's own shares: the tick on each track. Both are shares of its output, so they sit on one scale and can be read against each other as well as against the world.

openly available100.0%

World: 40% of research is openly available.

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