02.07.2024
The oligopoly of academic publishers persists in exclusive database
« Global scholarly publishing has been dominated by a small number of publishers for several decades. We aimed to revisit the debate on corporate control of scholarly publishing by analyzing the relative shares of major publishers and smaller, independent publishers. Using the Web of Science, Dimensions and OpenAlex, we managed to retrieve twice as many articles indexed in Dimensions and OpenAlex, compared to the rather selective Web of Science. (…) »
source > arxiv.org, Simon van Bellen, Juan Pablo Alperin, Vincent Larivière, 25 juin 2024, arXiv:2406.17893
