Bibliodiversity of Small Academic Publishers: The Role of Open Access for Impact and Visibility

« Large bibliographic databases highlight tangible and symbolic differences regarding the standards of quality attached to them, underlining diverging incentive structures for small and large academic publishers. To assess the academic differences associated with these, we explore bibliometric data for small publishers’ journals from the Web of Science (WoS) and Scopus. We then discuss the visibility and impact of highly cited literature in small open access journals in relation to their cited references from indexed and non-indexed sources. (…) »

source > ojs.lib.uwo.ca, Roberto Cruz Romero, Dimity Stephen, Stephan Stahlschmid, The Canadian Journal of Information and Library Science - La Revue canadienne des sciences de l’information et de bibliothéconomie (CJILS-RCSIB)Vol. 48, No. 1 (2025)DOI: 10.5206/cjils-rcsib.v48i1.22290

• Mots-clés : 
• Bibliodiversity,
• Bibliométrie,
• Open Access