Adherence of the Brazilian elite of researchers to open access journals and its relation to gender, region and area of knowledge
This study aims to assess the level of adherence the Brazilian elite of researchers to open access journals as a strategy to publish their research. In this study, the 1,205 researchers who received the CNPq PQ 1A productivity scholarship in 2016 are considered as the Brazilian elite. Personal and a...
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| Tipo de recurso: | artículo |
| Estado: | Versión publicada |
| Fecha de publicación: | 2020 |
| País: | Brasil |
| Institución: | Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul (UFRGS) |
| Repositorio: | Em Questão (Online) |
| Idioma: | portugués |
| OAI Identifier: | oai:seer.ufrgs.br:article/99359 |
| Acceso en línea: | https://seer.ufrgs.br/index.php/EmQuestao/article/view/99359 |
| Access Level: | acceso abierto |
| Palabra clave: | Acesso aberto. Periódicos científicos. Ciência brasileira. ScriptLattes. Produção Científica. Open Access Scientific journals Brazilian science ScriptLattes Scientific production. |
| Sumario: | This study aims to assess the level of adherence the Brazilian elite of researchers to open access journals as a strategy to publish their research. In this study, the 1,205 researchers who received the CNPq PQ 1A productivity scholarship in 2016 are considered as the Brazilian elite. Personal and academic data as well as data of scientific production from these researchers were collected (2000-2015) in the Lattes Platform. Adherence was defined as the fraction of open access articles of each of the 1,205 PQ 1A researchers in relation to the total number of articles they published. Three analyses were conducted to identify the relationship between adherence to open access journals and: (1) the researchers’ gender, (2) the geographic region of the researchers’ affiliation and (3) their main area of research. Over the four quadrennia, the number of researchers of very low adherence to open access was to decrease, but only 10% of researchers showed high or very high adherence. Female researchers, researchers from the Northeast region and researchers from the Agricultural and Applied Social Sciences showed greater adherence to open access journals. Adherence to open access journals by the Brazilian elite of researchers, though growing, was still found to be low, a worrying situation, considering that this group is a reference for the Brazilian scientific community. |
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