The Gold OA Landscape 2011-2014: Medicine « Walt at Random

" ... Chapter 10 is Medicine–which probably should be broken into, say, half a dozen subsets, but I don’t know enough to make that breakdown. It’s by far the largest subject, as noted in the excerpted version. A few items from the book’s coverage: [1] While a majority of articles published in serious gold OA journals in 2013 and 2014 involve APCs, a majority of those in 2011 and 2012 were in no-fee journals. [2] Fee-based articles have more than doubled since 2011. [3] 44% of articles involving APCs appeared in journals within the most expensive segment, $1,960 and up–and the average for articles involving APCs was $1,446 per article ($854 per article overall). [4] There does seem to be a gold rush of APC-charging journals starting in 2007 and peaking in 2009-2010. [5] You can probably guess the two countries publishing the most medicine articles in 2014, but maybe not the order: UK first, US second. Iran is sixth. For the rest of the 22 countries with at least 1,000 articles, see the book. Much, much more in the book ..."