The favorable perception open access improvement between researchers | SciELO in Perspective

[From Google's English] "One of the main reasons reported by researchers who did not publish in open access journals (AA) refers to their perception of the quality of these publications. The erroneous idea that associates AA to the absence of peer review or low quality articles remains the main obstacle to choose AA journals as the first choice of publication. A survey of 21.377 million researchers worldwide indicates that acceptance of publications in open access (AA) is increasing rapidly among researchers 1. The Nature Publishing Group and publisher associated Palgrave Macmillan held annually the Authors Insights Survey 2, which aims to periodically assess the attitude and behavior of the authors against scientific publication. This year's survey polled 18,354 (86%) authors in the fields of science, technology and medicine (STM) and 3,023 (14%) authors in the fields of social sciences and humanities (CSH). A survey conducted in 2014 indicated that 40% of the researchers have not published in AA periodicals were primarily concerned about the quality of AA publications. By 2015, this number dropped to 27%, but the quality remains a major concern among the authors who chose not AA journals ..."