The Global OA Journals and APC Monitoring Report is an annual report released by the Open Science Research Centre of the National Science Library, Chinese Academy of Sciences to provide data support for open science, scientific and technological publishing, and research management. Currently, the 2024 Global OA Journals and APC Monitoring Report has been completed and the expert consultation meeting has been successfully held.
In the 2024 report, 2 new contents have been added: 1 is the data of OA issuance and APC expenditure in universities; 2 is the data of OA journal publication and ACP income in China. The journals analysed are the range of SCIE-listed journals.
Some monitoring data of Chinese OA journals in the 2024 report are provided for understanding.
In 2024, SCIE included 246 Chinese OA journals, accounting for 2.86% of the total OA journals included in SCIE.
SCIE includes 246 Chinese OA journals, with an annual increase of 32. Among them, the number of full OA journals is 1.2 times that of composite OA journals.
The 246 OA journals are distributed in 55 publishers.
Plant science, environmental science, metallurgy and metallurgical engineering are the subject areas with the most Chinese OA journals.
The proportion of Chinese OA journals published by four publishers, Springer Nature, Elsevier, Wiley, and Taylor & Francis, is 46.34% of all Chinese OA journals.
In 2024, the number of OA papers published in Chinese OA journals is 20,600, which is 1.98% of the global OA papers published.
The annual growth of OA paper publication in Chinese OA journals is 19.85%. Among them, the OA papers published by Chinese communication authors were 16,300, accounting for nearly 80% of the total.
The top 10 publishers of Chinese OA journals in terms of OA paper publications include KeAi Publishing Ltd, Springer Nature, Elsevier, Wiley, etc., with a total of 16,600 OA paper publications, accounting for 80.56% of the OA paper publications in Chinese OA journals.KeAi Publishing Ltd overtook Springer Nature as the publisher of Chinese OA journals with the highest number of OA papers issued in 2024.
Ame Publishing Company's Quantitative Imaging in Medicine and Surgery is the Chinese journal with the highest number of OA articles.
Ame Publishing Company, Tsinghua Univ Press, and Oxford Univ Press move into the top 10 publishers of Chinese journals with the highest number of OA papers published in 2024.
Chinese OA journal APC revenue exceeds RMB 264 million in 2024, accounting for 1.17% of global APC revenue.
In 2024, the APC revenue of Chinese OA journals is about US$37.13 million.
The average APC unit price of Chinese OA journals is US$2,372.
38 Chinese OA journals have an APC of 0.
Springer Nature publisher's Chinese OA journals had the highest APC revenue of US$7,326,100, or about RMB 52,174,500, an annual increase of 53.46%, accounting for 19.73% of the total APC revenue of Chinese OA journals.
CNS Neuroscience Therapeutics, a Wiley journal, ranked No. 1 in terms of APC revenue with more than $1,757,800 thanks to its super-high publication volume.
Among the top 10 Chinese OA journals in terms of APC revenue, Chinese authors accounted for more than 50% of the article volume, and 5 of them accounted for more than 80%.
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