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ArticlePeerJ2017

Growth of hybrid open access, 2009-2016.

Bo-Christer Björk

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Article in PeerJ, 2017. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 17 papers.

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17citing papers in PubMed
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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

17 citing papers in PubMed.

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  14. The Growth of Poorly Cited Articles in Peer-Reviewed Orthopaedic Journals.Clinical orthopaedics and related research · 2019
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  17. Trends in reader access and article processing charges among urology journals: A systematic review.Indian journal of urology : IJU : journal of the Urological Society of India
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

1 author.

Bo-Christer BjörkInformation Systems Science, Hanken School of Economics, Helsinki, Finland.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Hybrid Open Access is an intermediate form of OA, where authors pay scholarly publishers to make articles freely accessible within journals, in which reading the content otherwise requires a subscription or pay-per-view. Major scholarly publishers have in recent years started providing the hybrid option for the vast majority of their journals. Since the uptake usually has been low per journal and scattered over thousands of journals, it has been very difficult to obtain an overview of how common hybrid articles are. This study, using the results of earlier studies as well as a variety of methods, measures the evolution of hybrid OA over time. The number of journals offering the hybrid option has increased from around 2,000 in 2009 to almost 10,000 in 2016. The number of individual articles has in the same period grown from an estimated 8,000 in 2009 to 45,000 in 2016. The growth in article numbers has clearly increased since 2014, after some major research funders in Europe started to introduce new centralized payment schemes for the article processing charges (APCs).

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Open accessScholarly publishing

Identifiers

PMID28975059
PMCPMC5624290

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