Tendencias en la publicación en acceso abierto con especial énfasis en MDPI (2018-2022) | Investigación Bibliotecológica: archivonomía, bibliotecología e información

From DeepL's English: In 2022, MDPI became the fourth largest publisher by total number of articles indexed and the largest publisher by number of open access articles indexed per year. This analysis looks at the distribution of MDPI articles in Web of Science and Scopus by country and year. Scientists from Romania and Poland preferred to publish in MDPI journals to a greater extent than those from other countries. The contribution of publications in MDPI journals was also abnormally high in the other former Eastern bloc countries, while authors from the United States and England showed a moderate interest in MDPI publications. The proportion of MDPI articles per year in all countries increased linearly in recent years, but the patterns in certain countries were very different. In Germany, France and Japan, a ‘saturation’ was observed; the number of MDPI articles in 2022 was only slightly higher than in 2021, while in South Korea, Spain and Poland the trend was reversed in 2022, i.e. fewer MDPI articles were published in 2022 than in 2021.