Citation indicators’ comparison of LIS open access and subscription publications based on Scopus
| Pages | 288-299 |
| Published date | 01 July 2019 |
| DOI | https://doi.org/10.1108/GKMC-02-2018-0016 |
| Date | 01 July 2019 |
| Author | Zahra Abbasi,Maryam Shekofteh,Azam Shahbodaghi,Elaheh Kazemi |
| Subject Matter | Library & information science,Information behaviour & retrieval,Information in society,Information literacy,Library & information services |
Citation indicators’comparison of
LIS open access and subscription
publications based on Scopus
Zahra Abbasi,Maryam Shekofteh and Azam Shahbodaghi
Department of Medical Library and Information Science,
Faculty of Paramedical Sciences,
Shahid Beheshti University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran, and
Elaheh Kazemi
Department of Biostatistics, Faculty of Paramedical Sciences,
Shahid Beheshti University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran
Abstract
Purpose –There are different opinions about the quality and reputation of publications. Given that one of the
ways to analyze the quality of journals and articles is citation indicators, the purpose of this paper is to compare
the citation indicators of open access (OA), full subscription and hybrid journals and articles based on the Scopus
in the field of library and information science (LIS) for a period of ten years (2004-2013).
Design/methodology/approach –The research populationis all LIS journals and articles in LIS hybrid
journals in Scopus. The data related to citation indicators (number of received citations, two years’impact,
Citescore [IPP] and H-index) were extractedfrom Scopus, Journal Metrics and SCImago and analyzed using
descriptiveand analytical statistics with SPSS andExcel.
Findings –The findings indicate that number of OA journals and articles were less than that of full
subscription and hybrid journals. The average rate of all citation indicators in hybrid journals were
more than that of OA and full subscription journals. However, in the level of articles, the average
number of citations received by OA articles (15.6) was more than that of non-OA articles (2.25).
Originality/value –Unlike journals, OA seems to be an advantage for articles in LIS. LIS hybrid journals
receive more citations than OA and subscription journals. Thus, the authors’approach to publishing in OA,
hybrid or subscription journals and the publishers approach to the publication type may also be influenced by
the findings of the present study.
Keywords Library and information science, Open access, Article processing charge,
Citation indicators, Hybrid journals, Subscription journals
Paper type Research paper
Introduction and problem statement
Open access (OA) journals have emerged after the advent and arrival of internet in the libraries
since early 1990 (Kennan and Kautz, 2007;Kousha and Thelwall,2006, 2008;Mann et al.,2009).
The first OA archive named arXiv was founded by Paul Ginsparg, a physicist at Los Alamos
National Laboratory, in 1991. But clearly, OA movement was established after a conference
was held in Budapest in December 2001 (Guédon, 2004;Moed, 2010). After that, important
meetings were held in Bethesda in April 2003, Berlin in October 2004 and Salvador in
Funding for this research was provided by Shahid Beheshti University of Medical Sciences, Faculty
of Paramedical Sciences (15879).
GKMC
68,4/5
288
Received21 February 2018
Revised28 November 2018
Accepted29 November 2018
GlobalKnowledge, Memory and
Communication
Vol.68 No. 4/5, 2019
pp. 288-299
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