2011
DOI: 10.1087/20110408
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The extent of concentration in journal publishing

Abstract: This study examines the extent of concentration in the journal publishing industry. A number of aspects are considered: publishers, journal impacts, countries, and languages. For journals indexed in JCR from 1997 to 2009, just 0.2% of publishers produce 50% of journals and articles, and 0.3% of publishers account for the top 50% of citations, impact factors and immediacy indices. More than a half of publishers in JCR are from four countries: USA, UK, Germany and Japan. In addition, more than a half of journals… Show more

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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.…”
Section: Methodssupporting
confidence: 54%
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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.…”
Section: Methodssupporting
confidence: 54%
“…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, ).…”
Section: Introductionmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…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.…”
Section: Datamentioning
confidence: 99%
“…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.…”
Section: Rankmentioning
confidence: 99%