Nina Schönfelder (2020). Article processing charges:
Mirroring the citation impact or legacy of the subscription-based model?
Quantitative Science Studies 1(1), 6–27. https://doi.org/10.1162/qss_a_00015
With the ongoing open-access transformation, article processing
charges (APCs) are gaining importance as one of the main business models
for open-access publishing in scientific journals. This paper analyzes
how much of APC pricing can be attributed to journal-related factors.
With UK data from OpenAPC (which aggregates fees paid for open-access
articles by universities, funders, and research institutions), APCs are
explained by the following variables: (a) the “source normalized impact
per paper” (SNIP), (b) whether the journal is open access or hybrid, (c)
the publisher of the journal, (d) the subject area of the journal, and
(e) the year. The results of the multivariate linear regression show
that the journal’s impact and hybrid status are the most important
factors for the level of APCs. However, the relationship between APC and
SNIP is different for open-access journals and hybrid journals. APCs
paid to open-access journals were found to be strongly increasing in
conjunction with higher journal citation impact, whereas this
relationship was observed to be much looser for articles in hybrid
journals. This paper goes beyond simple statistics, which have been
discussed so far in the literature, by using control variables and
applying statistical inference.
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