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Exploring possibilities to use bibliometric data to monitor gold open access publishing at the national level
Author(s) -
van Leeuwen Thed N.,
Tatum Clifford,
Wouters Paul F.
Publication year - 2018
Publication title -
journal of the association for information science and technology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.903
H-Index - 145
eISSN - 2330-1643
pISSN - 2330-1635
DOI - 10.1002/asi.24029
Subject(s) - publishing , baseline (sea) , limiting , web of science , open data , bibliometrics , open science , data science , library science , computer science , electronic publishing , political science , world wide web , medline , the internet , engineering , statistics , mechanical engineering , mathematics , law
This article[Note 1. This article is an extended and revised version of ...] describes the possibilities to analyze open access (OA) publishing in the Netherlands in an international comparative way. OA publishing is now actively stimulated by Dutch science policy, similar to the United Kingdom. We conducted a bibliometric baseline measurement to assess the current situation, to be able to measure developments over time. We collected data from various sources, and for three different smaller European countries (the Netherlands, Denmark, and Switzerland). Not all of the analyses for this baseline measurement are included here. The analysis presented in this article focuses on the various ways OA can be defined using the Web of Science, limiting the analysis mainly to Gold OA. From the data we collected we can conclude that the way OA is currently registered in various electronic bibliographic databases is quite unclear, and various methods applied deliver results that are different, although the impact scores derived from the data point in the same direction.