ArticlePeerJ2018
Authorial and institutional stratification in open access publishing: the case of global health research.
Article in PeerJ, 2018. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 14 papers.
What it found
Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.
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.
The trial behind it
Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.
Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.
Who cites it
14 citing papers in PubMed, 71 citations in OpenAlex.
- Hurdles to open access publishing faced by authors: a scoping literature review from 2004 to 2023.Royal Society open science · 2025Review
- The academic impact of Open Science: a scoping review.Royal Society open science · 2025Review
- Access to evidence-based care: a systematic review of trauma and surgical literature costs across resource settings.Trauma surgery & acute care open · 2024Article
- Toward equitable open research: stakeholder co-created recommendations for research institutions, funders and researchers.Royal Society open science · 2023Article
- Higher Author Fees in Gastroenterology Journals Are Not Associated with Faster Processing Times or Higher Impact.Digestive diseases and sciences · 2022Article
- Dynamics of cumulative advantage and threats to equity in open science: a scoping review.Royal Society open science · 2022Article
- Literature search strategies in dental education and research.Journal of Taibah University Medical Sciences · 2021Review
- Mapping open knowledge institutions: an exploratory analysis of Australian universities.PeerJ · 2021Article
- Article
- Article
- A cross-sectional description of open access publication costs, policies and impact in emergency medicine and critical care journals.African journal of emergency medicine : Revue africaine de la medecine d'urgence · 2019Article
- Access to Top-Cited Emergency Care Articles (Published Between 2012 and 2016) Without Subscription.The western journal of emergency medicine · 2019Article
- The Curious Case of "Case Report" of Infections Caused by Human and Animal Fungal Pathogens: An Educational Tool, an Online Archive, or a Format in Need of Retooling.Mycopathologia · 2018Article
- The case for openness in engineering research.F1000Research · 2018Article
Corrections and comments
PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.
Authors and funding
5 authors at 4 institutions in 2 countries.
Funding
No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.
Abstract
Using a database of recent articles published in the field of Global Health research, we examine institutional sources of stratification in publishing access outcomes. Traditionally, the focus on inequality in scientific publishing has focused on prestige hierarchies in established print journals. This project examines stratification in contemporary publishing with a particular focus on subscription vs. various Open Access (OA) publishing options. Findings show that authors working at lower-ranked universities are more likely to publish in closed/paywalled outlets, and less likely to choose outlets that involve some sort of Article Processing Charge (APCs; gold or hybrid OA). We also analyze institutional differences and stratification in the APC costs paid in various journals. Authors affiliated with higher-ranked institutions, as well as hospitals and non-profit organizations pay relatively higher APCs for gold and hybrid OA publications. Results suggest that authors affiliated with high-ranked universities and well-funded institutions tend to have more resources to choose pay options with publishing. Our research suggests new professional hierarchies developing in contemporary publishing, where various OA publishing options are becoming increasingly prominent. Just as there is stratification in institutional representation
Indexed as
Identifiers
What OpenQuestion holds
Registered trials
Read under generation 80e0d062 · epoch 390. Bibliography from PubMed, PubMed Central and OpenAlex; grants from NIH RePORTER; trial links from ClinicalTrials.gov; estimates, votes and beliefs from the OpenQuestion graph.