Usage Trends of Open Access and Local Journals: A Korean Case Study.

ABSTRACT: Articles from open access and local journals are important resources for research in Korea and the usage trends of these articles are important indicators for the assessment of the current research practice. We analyzed an institutional collection of published papers from 1998 to 2014 authored by researchers from Seoul National University, and their references from papers published between 1998 and 2011. The published papers were collected from Web of Science or Scopus and were analyzed according to the proportion of articles from open access journals. Their cited references from published papers in Web of Science were analyzed according to the proportion of local (South Korean) or open access journals. The proportion of open access papers was relatively stable until 2006 (2.5 ~ 5.2% in We

SUBMITTER: Seo JW 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4873189 | biostudies-literature | 2016

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature