The first in an occasional series noting interesting items in The Gold OA Landscape 2011-2014 that aren’t in the excerpted version in Cites & Insights 15:9—or observations drawn from the book.
Chapter 6, Country of Publication, is mostly tables showing countries in which gold OA journals are published arranged in different ways with additional facts. The C&I version includes Table 6.2, countries ranged by percentage of OA journals that don’t charge APCs (from the 100% free of Cuba, Venezuela, Denmark, Costa Rica, Estonia, Philippines, Sri Lanka and Ecuador down to the only four where at least 70% of gold OA journals do charge author-side fees: the United Kingdom, United Arab Emirates, New Zealand and Nigeria). It also includes all or part of Table 6.3, articles by country in 2014 for countries with at least 1,000 (and percentage in no-fee journals) from 89,485 in the U.S. (17% in no-fee journals, although 62% of U.S. gold OA journals don’t charge fees) down to 1,001 in Peru (94% in no-fee journals: 96% of the OA journals in Peru don’t charge fees).
The issue doesn’t include Tables 6.1, 6.4, 6.5 or 6.6, illustrating different aspects. For those, you need to buy the book.
Here’s one I could have included in the book but didn’t, thrown in as an online bonus: potential revenue in 2014 by country. There are 75 countries where at least one APC-charging journal published articles in 2014, so it’s a long table. Here goes:
| Country | Max Revenue 2014 |
| United Kingdom |
$109,851,559 |
| United States |
$96,180,926 |
| Switzerland |
$40,101,185 |
| Egypt |
$17,169,400 |
| Germany |
$8,548,465 |
| India |
$4,549,535 |
| Netherlands |
$3,826,035 |
| Canada |
$3,377,120 |
| Japan |
$2,192,653 |
| South Korea |
$2,043,914 |
| New Zealand |
$1,669,429 |
| Brazil |
$1,487,926 |
| Italy |
$1,039,531 |
| Australia |
$988,599 |
| China |
$954,493 |
| Sweden |
$852,444 |
| Finland |
$821,021 |
| Nigeria |
$703,620 |
| Iran, Islamic Republic of |
$661,185 |
| Pakistan |
$615,362 |
| Indonesia |
$613,155 |
| Czech Republic |
$561,019 |
| South Africa |
$534,954 |
| Singapore |
$517,110 |
| Poland |
$376,383 |
| Turkey |
$325,246 |
| Bulgaria |
$257,951 |
| Spain |
$256,865 |
| Romania |
$255,321 |
| Austria |
$239,290 |
| United Arab Emirates |
$231,930 |
| Chile |
$227,760 |
| Hong Kong |
$227,568 |
| Uganda |
$194,040 |
| France |
$157,000 |
| Russian Federation |
$139,713 |
| Macedonia, the Former Yugoslav Republic of |
$135,559 |
| Bangladesh |
$103,045 |
| Argentina |
$92,098 |
| Greece |
$90,868 |
| Mauritius |
$68,040 |
| Portugal |
$64,257 |
| Croatia |
$63,398 |
| Malaysia |
$52,650 |
| Jordan |
$51,600 |
| Slovenia |
$48,720 |
| Ukraine |
$39,469 |
| Mexico |
$38,350 |
| Serbia |
$37,362 |
| Kenya |
$35,540 |
| Morocco |
$33,400 |
| Qatar |
$26,865 |
| Hungary |
$24,900 |
| Taiwan, Province of China |
$24,100 |
| Thailand |
$20,900 |
| Bosnia and Herzegovina |
$18,580 |
| Colombia |
$17,800 |
| Saudi Arabia |
$16,270 |
| Lithuania |
$11,406 |
| Nepal |
$9,350 |
| Israel |
$7,566 |
| Peru |
$7,480 |
| Belgium |
$6,800 |
| Norway |
$6,656 |
| Slovakia |
$6,490 |
| Libya |
$6,200 |
| Kosova |
$5,192 |
| Cyprus |
$4,851 |
| Albania |
$3,876 |
| Palestine, State of |
$3,600 |
| Zambia |
$1,700 |
| Ghana |
$1,500 |
| Kazakhstan |
$1,485 |
| Iraq |
$878 |
| Yemen |
$224 |
If you haven’t purchased the book (paperback or site-licensed PDF) yet, please do. (Yes, it will eventually be available—paperback only—from Ingram, Amazon or Barnes & Noble, but that will be something like two months from now.)
What the heck: as more copies sell, I may try to find more interesting new stuff that’s not in the book (but might be next year, if the project continues).
