A Crisis in “Open Access”: Should Communication Scholarly Outputs Take 77 Years to Become Open Access?

• Main Authors: Ghanbari Baghestan, Abbas, Khaniki, Hadi, Kalantari, Abdolhosein, Akhtari-Zavare, Mehrnoosh, Farahmand, Elaheh, Tamam, Ezhar, Ale Ebrahim, Nader, Sabani, Havva, Danaee, Mahmoud
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: SAGE Publications 2019
• Subjects: H Social Sciences (General)
• Online Access: http://eprints.um.edu.my/22083/1/A%20Crisis%20in%20Open%20Access.pdf; http://eprints.um.edu.my/22083/; https://doi.org/10.1177/2158244019871044
• Institution: Universiti Malaya

This study diachronically investigates the trend of the “open access” in the Web of Science (WoS) category of “communication.” To evaluate the trend, data were collected from 184 categories of WoS from 1980 to 2017. A total of 87,997,893 documents were obtained, of which 95,304 (0.10%) were in the c...