The extent of concentration in journal publishing

Didegah, Fereshteh; Gazni, Ali

doi:10.1087/20110408

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“…Details are shown for all publisher countries that exceed a threshold of 1% in the observation period. In accordance with Didegah and Gazni (), the U.K. and U.S. publishers hold the major share of worldwide publications. This is, of course, partly only a result of the data shown in Table , that is, approximately a third of all publications originate in the U.S. Didegah and Gazni () show that even though the Netherlands do not have a large number of publishers in total, they rank third according to the number of journals published.…”

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“…This could mean that a decisive factor, apart from issues concerning a journal's reputation and impact, may also be the origin of the journal itself. Indeed, a great concentration of journals can be observed in the three principal countries where journals are published, the U.S., the U.K., and the Netherlands, which are also by far the largest publisher countries in terms of numbers of journals (compare Didegah & Gazni, ).…”

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Placing articles in the large publisher nations: Is there a “free lunch” in terms of higher impact?

Schubert

Michels

2013

J Am Soc Inf Sci Tec

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This paper deals with the role of a journal's publisher country in determining the expected citation rates of the articles published in it. We analyze whether a paper has a higher citation rate when it is published in one of the large publisher nations, the U.S., U.K., or the Netherlands, compared to a hypothetical situation when the same paper is published in journals of different origin. This would constitute a "free lunch," which could be explained by a Matthew effect visible on the countrylevel, similar to the well-documented Matthew effect on the author-level. We first use a simulation model that highlights increasing citation returns to quality as the central key condition on which such a Matthew effect may emerge. Then we use an international bibliometric panel data set of forty-nine countries for the years 2000-2010 and show that such a "free lunch" implied by this Matthew effect can be observed for top journals from the U.S. and depending on the specification also from the U.K. and the Netherlands, while there is no effect for lower-ranked American journals and negative effects for lower-ranked British journals as well as those coming from the Netherlands.

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Placing articles in the large publisher nations: Is there a “free lunch” in terms of higher impact?

Schubert

Michels

2013

J Am Soc Inf Sci Tec

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“…Most of the journals in this database are published by a small number of large multinational publishers. 15 The chosen period for this study is 24 years, which provides a timeframe long enough to measure changes in internationalization. Only references indexed in WoS during the chosen period were processed; references to papers published before 1990 and references to those journals not indexed in WoS were ignored.…”

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Globalization of national journals: investigating the growth of international authorship

Gazni

2015

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This study investigated changes in the internationality of national publishers' journals for the period 1990–2013. The patterns of foreign and interregional authorship in papers and references of 4,199 journals from 3,529 publishers were analyzed. The results revealed that foreign authorship increased from 36% to 62% during the period, but interregional authorship only grew from 77% to 82%. The growth in internationality is not the same across disciplines and regions of the world. Agricultural sciences, psychiatry/psychology, and economics and business have the least number of foreign authors, while journals in space science, mathematics, and physics have the most. According to the number of both foreign‐authored papers and foreign‐authored citations, clinical medicine is one of the least international fields. Latin America and Middle East publishers have a greater tendency to publish papers from authors in their countries. In contrast, national publishers in North America have become considerably more international over time. Russia, China, and Brazil publish the least number of foreign authored‐papers in their journals, while Switzerland's journals publish the most.

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“…This research has some limitations. The three journal citation databases favour English-language journals (Didegah & Gazni, 2011;Mongeon & Paul-Hus, 2016;Tang & Hu, 2013). This may underestimate the use of non-English languages in scholarly communication since non-indexation does not mean that the journals do not exist or are not of local or regional importance.…”

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The changing role of non-English papers in scholarly communication: Evidence from Web of Science's three journal citation indexes

Liu

2016

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Non‐English languages are widely used, but their roles in scholarly communication are relatively under‐explored. By using Web of Science's Science Citation Index Expanded (SCIE, 1900–2015), Social Sciences Citation Index (SSCI, 1900–2015), and Arts and Humanities Citation Index (A&HCI, 1975–2015), this study probes the patterns and dynamics of non‐English papers by year, citation index, and discipline using bibliometric analysis. The analyses show that English is increasingly being used as the dominating language from natural sciences and social sciences to arts and humanities. Around 97% of the papers in SCIE, 95% of the papers in SSCI, and 73% of the papers in A&HCI during the past decade were in English. However, other languages such as German and French were also used as important academic languages in sciences and social sciences during the first half of the 20th century, 1970s, and 1980s. Unlike natural science and social science disciplines, non‐English papers have consistently played important role in arts and humanities disciplines from the beginning of 1975. Although the shares of non‐English papers in SCIE and SSCI databases have been limited during the past decade, a large number of non‐English papers can be found in some applied disciplines of sciences and social sciences.

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The extent of concentration in journal publishing

Cited by 22 publications

References 4 publications

Placing articles in the large publisher nations: Is there a “free lunch” in terms of higher impact?

Placing articles in the large publisher nations: Is there a “free lunch” in terms of higher impact?

Globalization of national journals: investigating the growth of international authorship

The changing role of non-English papers in scholarly communication: Evidence from Web of Science's three journal citation indexes

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