Open Science: The global periphery love gold open access

Authors from the peripheral countries tend to publish more often in gold open access. The 'precarious beginners' researchers are those who publish most frequently in gold OA, but only if they are based in the peripheral countries. This might be the result of a pressure to publish in 'international journals', which is present in these countries. New open access journals might be the best way to satisfy this expectation, since vogue toll access venues unnecessarily raise rejection rates. Here I publish a partial analysis, some code and part of the dataset from Key Challenges of Research Communication De Gruyter Open Author’s Survey."