Jurnal Internasional Afrika vol.9 issue .3 2019
African Journal of Emergency Medicine
A cross-sectional description of open access publication costs, policies and impact in emergency medicine and critical care journals

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Title

Jurnal Internasional Afrika vol.9 issue .3 2019
African Journal of Emergency Medicine
A cross-sectional description of open access publication costs, policies and impact in emergency medicine and critical care journals

Subject

Open access
Impact
Emergency medicine
Critical care

Description

Introduction: Finding journal open access information alongside its global impact requires access to multiple
databases. We describe a single, searchable database of all emergency medicine and critical care journals that
include their open access policies, publication costs, and impact metrics.
Methods: A list of emergency medicine and critical care journals (including citation metrics) was created using
Scopus (Citescore) and the Web of Science (Impact Factor). Cost of gold/hybrid open access and article process
charges (open access fees) were collected from journal websites. Self-archiving policies were collected from the
Sherpa/RoMEO database. Relative cost of access in different regions were calculated using the World Bank
Purchasing Power Parity index for authors from the United States, Germany, Turkey, China, Brazil, South Africa
and Australia.
Results: We identified 78 emergency medicine and 82 critical care journals. Median Citescore for emergency
medicine was 0.73 (interquartile range, IQR 0.32–1.27). Median impact factor was 1.68 (IQR 1.00–2.39).
Median Citescore for critical care was 0.95 (IQR 0.25–2.06). Median impact factor was 2.18 (IQR 1.73–3.50).
Mean article process charge for emergency medicine was $2243.04, SD = $1136.16 and for critical care
$2201.64, SD = $1174.38. Article process charges were 2.24, 1.75, 2.28 and 1.56 times more expensive for
South African, Chinese, Turkish and Brazilian authors respectively than United States authors, but neutral for
German and Australian authors (1.02 and 0.81 respectively). The database can be accessed here: http://www.
emct.info/publication-search.html.
Conclusions: We present a single database that captures emergency medicine and critical care journal impact
rankings alongside its respective open access cost and green open access policies.

Creator

Chante Dove, Teresa M. Chan, Brent Thoma, Damian Roland, Stevan R. Bruijns

Source

https://doi.org/10.1016/j.afjem.2019.01.015

Date

30 January 2019

Contributor

peri irawan

Format

pdf

Language

ENGLISH

Type

text

Files

Tags

,Repository, Repository Horizon University Indonesia, Repository Universitas Horizon Indonesia, Horizon.ac.id, Horizon University Indonesia, Universitas Horizon Indonesia, HorizonU, Repo Horizon ,

Citation

Chante Dove, Teresa M. Chan, Brent Thoma, Damian Roland, Stevan R. Bruijns, “Jurnal Internasional Afrika vol.9 issue .3 2019
African Journal of Emergency Medicine
A cross-sectional description of open access publication costs, policies and impact in emergency medicine and critical care journals,” Repository Horizon University Indonesia, accessed November 21, 2024, https://repository.horizon.ac.id/items/show/1771.