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20192025
most citedReference Coverage Analysis of OpenAlex compared to Web of Science and Scopus

131 citations · 347 across the 11 of their papers we have counts for

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11 papers

cs.DL2025★ 6 cited

Estimating transformative agreement impact on hybrid open access: A comparative large-scale study using Scopus, Web of Science and open metadata

Najko Jahn

This study compares open metadata from hoaddata, an openly available dataset based on Crossref, OpenAlex and the cOAlition S Journal Checker Tool, with proprietary bibliometric dat…

cs.DL2024★ 20 cited

Analysis of the Publication and Document Types in OpenAlex, Web of Science, Scopus, PubMed and Semantic Scholar

Nick Haupka, Jack H. Culbert, Alexander Schniedermann +2

The assignment of document and publication types in scholarly databases plays an important role in bibliometrics, for example in decision-making or university rankings. However, sc…

cs.DL2024★ 20 cited

How open are hybrid journals included in transformative agreements?

Najko Jahn

The ongoing controversy surrounding transformative agreements, which aim to transition subscription-based journal publishing to full open access, highlights the need for large-scal…

cs.DL2024★ 131 cited

Reference Coverage Analysis of OpenAlex compared to Web of Science and Scopus

Jack Culbert, Anne Hobert, Najko Jahn +4

OpenAlex is a promising open source of scholarly metadata, and competitor to established proprietary sources, such as the Web of Science and Scopus. As OpenAlex provides its data f…

cs.DL2023

Understanding differences of the OA uptake within the Germany university landscape (2010-2020) -- Part 2: repository-provided OA

Niels Taubert, Anne Hobert, Najko Jahn +2

This study investigates the determinants for the uptake of institutional and subject repository Open Access (OA) in the university landscape of Germany and considers three factors:…

cs.DL2022★ 4 cited

Understanding differences of the OA uptake within the German university landscape (2010-2020). Part 1: journal-based OA

Niels Taubert, Anne Hobert, Najko Jahn +2

This study investigates the determinants for the uptake of Full and Hybrid Open Access (OA) in the university landscape of Germany. It adapts the governance equaliser as a heuristi…

cs.DL2021★ 9 cited

No Deal: Investigating the Influence of Restricted Access to Elsevier Journals on German Researchers' Publishing and Citing Behaviours

Nicholas Fraser, Anne Hobert, Najko Jahn +2

In 2014, a union of German research organisations established Projekt DEAL, a national-level project to negotiate licensing agreements with large scientific publishers. Negotiation…

cs.DL2021★ 27 cited

Transparency to hybrid open access through publisher-provided metadata: An article-level study of Elsevier

Najko Jahn, Lisa Matthias, Mikael Laakso

With the growth of open access (OA), the financial flows in scholarly journal publishing have become increasingly complex, but comprehensive data and transparency into these flows…

cs.DL2020★ 64 cited

Comment on "Open is not forever: a study of vanished open access journals"

Matan Shelomi

We comment on a recent article by Laakso et al. (arXiv:2008.11933 [cs.DL]), in which the disappearance of 176 open access journals from the Internet is noted. We argue that one rea…

cs.DL2020★ 64 cited

Open is not forever: a study of vanished open access journals

Mikael Laakso, Lisa Matthias, Najko Jahn

The preservation of the scholarly record has been a point of concern since the beginning of knowledge production. With print publications, the responsibility rested primarily with…

cs.DL2019★ 2 cited

Open Access -- Towards a non-normative and systematic understanding

Niels Taubert, Anne Hobert, Nicolas Fraser +2

The term Open Access not only describes a certain model of scholarly publishing -- namely in digital format freely accessible to readers -- but often also implies that free availab…