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Academic Publishing and Open Access

Academic Publishing and Open Access is a research topic within Information Systems and Management. Science Explorer counts 13k research works in it since 1950. 10.4% of them reached the world's top 10% most cited for their field and year.

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  • Preprints
  • COVID-19
  • Science Communication
  • Peer Review
  • Research Dissemination
  • Scientific Publishing
  • Scholarly Communication
  • Open Access
  • Pandemic Response
  • Research Integrity
Research works
13k
fractional, since 1950
In the world top 10%
1.3k
per year above
Top-10% rate
10.4%
share of its works in the world top 10%
Growth, 2018-21 → 2022-25
+21%
the tick is no change
Largest producer
United States
40% of the 10 largest, 2022-now
Academic Publishing and Open Access

Which countries lead Academic Publishing and Open Access research?

By volume, the United States and the United Kingdom publish the most (1.1k and 329 works in 2022-now).

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 United States 1.1k works
  2. 2 United Kingdom 329 works
  3. 3 India 251 works
  4. 4 China 212 works
  5. 5 Germany 193 works
  6. 6 Japan 168 works
  7. 7 Italy 138 works
  8. 8 Canada 128 works
  9. 9 France 125 works
  10. 10 Switzerland 120 works

How concentrated that is

The same countries as shares of everything the list above accounts for. A node where two countries do two thirds of the work and one spread evenly across twelve read alike as a ranking and not at all alike here.

United States: 39.5%United Kingdom: 12.0%India: 9.1%China: 7.7%6 others listed: 31.7%40%largest
United States1,089 · 39.5%United Kingdom329 · 12.0%India251 · 9.1%China212 · 7.7%6 others listed873 · 31.7%

Shares of the rows listed above, not of the whole node.

Which institutions lead Academic Publishing and Open Access research?

By volume in 2022-now, Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute (Switzerland) publishes the most Academic Publishing and Open Access research, followed by Russian Academy of Sciences and Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique.

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute (Switzerland)Switzerland 65 works
  2. 2 Russian Academy of SciencesRussia 32 works
  3. 3 Centre National de la Recherche ScientifiqueFrance 27 works
  4. 4 The University of TokyoJapan 25 works
  5. 5 University of OxfordUnited Kingdom 20 works
  6. 6 Health & Medical Publishing GroupSouth Africa 19 works
  7. 7 Health AffairsUnited States 19 works
  8. 8 Harvard UniversityUnited States 17 works
  9. 9 University of PittsburghUnited States 16 works
  10. 10 University of EdinburghUnited Kingdom 16 works

Who are the leading researchers in Academic Publishing and Open Access?

The most-cited researchers publishing on Academic Publishing and Open Access include David Moher, George Davey Smith and Zulfiqar Ahmed Bhutta.

  1. 1 David Moher Canada 898k citations
  2. 2 George Davey Smith United Kingdom 435k citations
  3. 3 Zulfiqar Ahmed Bhutta Pakistan 371k citations
  4. 4 Matthias Egger Switzerland 326k citations
  5. 5 John P. A. Ioannidis United States 317k citations
  6. 6 Gordon Henry Guyatt Canada 315k citations
  7. 7 Elie A. Akl Canada 313k citations
  8. 8 Lesley A. Stewart United Kingdom 308k citations
  9. 9 Sudhir Kumar United States 295k citations
  10. 10 Peter Christian Gøtzsche Denmark 292k citations

Ranked by citations received across their whole record, among researchers with at least three works on this topic.

What are the most cited papers in Academic Publishing and Open Access?

The most cited paper in Academic Publishing and Open Access is "The journal coverage of Web of Science and Scopus: a comparative analysis" (Philippe Mongeon, Adèle Paul‐Hus, 2015), with 5,117 citations. Next come "PRISMA2020 : An R package and Shiny app for producing PRISMA 2020‐compliant flow diagrams, with interactivity for optimised digital transparency and Open Synthesis" (3,425) and "Why the impact factor of journals should not be used for evaluating research" (2,499).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 The journal coverage of Web of Science and Scopus: a comparative analysis Philippe Mongeon, Adèle Paul‐Hus · Scientometrics Open access 19 Oct 2015 5,117
2 PRISMA2020 : An R package and Shiny app for producing PRISMA 2020‐compliant flow diagrams, with interactivity for optimised digital transparency and Open Synthesis Neal Haddaway, Matthew James Page, Chris C. Pritchard et al. · Campbell Systematic Reviews Open access 27 Mar 2022 3,425
3 Why the impact factor of journals should not be used for evaluating research Per O. Seglen · BMJ Open access 15 Feb 1997 2,499
4 Google Scholar, Web of Science, and Scopus: A systematic comparison of citations in 252 subject categories Alberto Martín‐Martín, Enrique Orduña‐Malea, Mike A Thelwall et al. · Journal of Informetrics Open access 5 Oct 2018 1,943
5 A Comparison between Two Main Academic Literature Collections: Web of Science and Scopus Databases Arezoo Aghaei Chadegani, Hadi Salehi, Melor Md Yunus et al. · Asian Social Science Open access 27 Apr 2013 1,928
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Where is Academic Publishing and Open Access research done?

The largest centres of Academic Publishing and Open Access research in 2022-now are London (United Kingdom), Tokyo (Japan), Basel (Switzerland) and New York (United States). Among places with at least 20 works in it, it is an unusually large share of all research in Basel, Cape Town and Bethesda.

Largest cities, 2022-now

  1. 1 LondonUnited Kingdom 82 works
  2. 2 TokyoJapan 69 works
  3. 3 BaselSwitzerland 68 works
  4. 4 New YorkUnited States 67 works
  5. 5 MoscowRussia 59 works
  6. 6 ParisFrance 54 works
  7. 7 BeijingChina 53 works
  8. 8 Washington D.C.United States 41 works
  9. 9 BethesdaUnited States 37 works
  10. 10 SeoulSouth Korea 35 works

Where it is the local speciality

  1. BaselCH · 67.8 works26×
  2. Cape TownZA · 21.4 works13×
  3. BethesdaUS · 37.1 works7.4×
← less than its size predicts1×more →

Location quotient: how much more of its research is in Academic Publishing and Open Access than the world average.

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Where is the best place to study Academic Publishing and Open Access?

Among universities, judged by research, Leiden University, University of Oxford and Harvard University score highest, combining excellence, specialisation, size, growth and international reach. Research strength is one signal when choosing where to study; it does not measure teaching.

0%10%20%30%mean 13.68%fractional works in this field (log) →share of work in the world top 10% →University of Sheffi…Harvard UniversityUniversity of OxfordLeiden University
above the meannear itbelow it

One dot per university in the first ten of the table below, at the default weights. The upper left is the interesting corner: small places doing unusually strong work.

Excellenceshare of its work in the world top 10%, 2022-now and all time averaged
40%
Specialisationhow much of its work is in this field, counted up to 10× the world share
10%
Sizeits output in this field, on a log scale
30%
Growthoutput growth, counted from -20% to +20%
10%
Internationalshare of its work with a co-author abroad
10%
Each slider sets a weight; the share it gets of the score is beside it.
#UniversityScoreTop 10%SpecialisationWorksGrowth
1Leiden UniversityNetherlands 75.912.8%7.8×16 +82.5%
2University of OxfordUnited Kingdom 67.513.7%3.8×20 +21.4%
3Harvard UniversityUnited States 65.420.4%1.5×17 +10.5%
4University of SheffieldUnited Kingdom 63.228.3%4.5×9 +14.4%
5University of TorontoCanada 59.69.6%2.2×16 +47.2%
6The University of SydneyAustralia 58.723.4%2.0×9 +20.6%
7KU LeuvenBelgium 54.35.8%3.6×13 +40.9%
8The University of TokyoJapan 51.01.6%5.5×25 +161.0%
9University of EdinburghUnited Kingdom 48.84.6%5.0×16 +199.3%
10Stanford UniversityUnited States 46.616.6%2.3×13 -16.1%

Universities only. The score blends excellence (40%), size (30%), specialisation (10%), growth (10%), international reach (10%), 2022-now; growth compares 2018-21 with 2022-25 and counts up to +20%, since a jump from a small base is mostly noise.

Every institution in Academic Publishing and Open Access, country by country

Is Academic Publishing and Open Access research growing?

Output in 2022-2025 was 21% higher than in 2018-2021, peaking in 2026. The fastest-growing topics are Academic Publishing and Open Access.

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The same series as a ribbon: one cell per year, darker for more. The line above answers how much; this answers when.

Its share of all research

Growing output can still be a shrinking share: all of science grows. This is Academic Publishing and Open Access as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.012% in 2024.

still counting0.010%0.020%0.030%Academic Publishing and Open Access0.020% in 202519801990200020102020

Fractional works of Academic Publishing and Open Access over all fractional works that year. How the balance of science has shifted.

How much of it reaches the world top 10%

Year by year.

still counting5%10%15%Academic Publishing and Open Access10.3% in 2025200020102020

Of each year's works in it, the share that reached the world's 10% most cited for their field and year. A field is the world for its own topics, so there is no other line to hold it against.

Which topics inside it are moving

Growth and decline on one axis around a shared zero. Two lists side by side hide the thing that matters: whether the growth dwarfs the decline, or the other way round.

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