Choices of immediate open access and the relationship to journal ranking and publish-and-read deals.

ABSTRACT: The role of academic journals is significant in the reward system of science, which makes their rank important for the researcher's choice in deciding where to submit. The study asks how choices of immediate gold and hybrid open access are related to journal ranking and how the uptake of immediate open access is affected by transformative publish-and-read deals, pushed by recent science policy. Data consists of 186,621 articles published with a Norwegian affiliation in the period 2013-2021, all of which were published in journals ranked in a National specific ranking, on one of two levels according to their importance, prestige, and perceived quality within a discipline. The results are that researchers chose to have their articles published as hybrid two times as often in journals on the

SUBMITTER: Wenaas L 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9632291 | biostudies-literature | 2022

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature