Open Access Journal Profile

This displays a breakdown of the journal’s articles by Open Access (OA) type.

For a hybrid journal, one that publishes both OA content and subscription content, users can easily identify the number of articles published under a subscription access model and identify those published under Creative Commons licenses (gold open access).

The goal is to increase transparency around how these articles contribute to a journal’s citations.

The data included in these tiles summarizes the items published in the journal in both the JCR data year and the previous two years. For example, in the 2020 JCR data, released in June 2021, the open access data shows the publication model (OA or subscription) of materials published in 2018, 2019 and 2020, and citations in 2020 to these items.

The identification of the open access types comes from Our Research, the same source used for Web of Science and InCites open access identification.

Our Research OA Classifications Used in Web of Science Group Products

In the Web of Science Core Collectoin, we use a data feed from Our Research to identify five types of open access papers:

  • DOAJ-Gold

  • Other Gold

  • Bronze

  • Green Published

  • Green Accepted

(Note that in late summer 2021 these categories will be renamed in the Web of Science and InCites to Gold, Gold - Hybrid, Free to Read – the green categories will not be renamed. This will not affect the definitions of open access used by Journal Citation Reports.)

OA Classifications Used in JCR

 

The current data was extracted from Our Research in April 2021 and will be periodically updated from the date of the release onwards. Journals disabled based on the March 2019 extract are now available.

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