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Identification and Evaluation of Quality of Open Access Journals Cited by Researchers of MIT, CIT and STANFORD
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Author(s): Showkat Ahmad Wani (University of Kashmir, India), Zahid Ashraf Wani (University of Kashmir, India)and Aamir Rehman Bhat (University of Kashmir, India)
Copyright: 2019
Pages: 20
Source title:
Ubiquitous Inclusive Learning in a Digital Era
Source Author(s)/Editor(s): Ebba Ossiannilsson (International Council for Open and Distance Education (ICDE), Norway & European Distance and e-Learning Network (EDEN), UK & Swedish Association for Distance Education (SADE), Sweden)
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-5225-6292-4.ch008
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Abstract
The study focuses on the top 3 institutions of the USA as ranked by the Times Higher Education University rankings and was keen to identify the quality of fully Open Access (OA) journals cited by the researchers of these institutes in the field of physics. Quality evaluation of identified OA journals was done by applying performance indicators viz: 5-year IF, SNIP and Eigen factor. It was found that these fully identified OA journals have decent 5-year IF, SNIP factor and Eigen factor, which indicates that OA journals are evolving as qualitative channels of scholarly communications. The study implicates that researchers, R&D institutions, libraries and information dissemination centres or anyone should make use of OA resources, and a good chunk of OA journals are at par with journals which are Toll-Access journals. Besides, it also reveals that OA publishing should be strengthened by whatever means necessary.
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