פרסום מדעי בגישה הפתוחה ובגישה הסגורה בקרב חוקרים ישראלים: מחקר ביבליומטרי

Open Access (OA) in the context of academic publishing is a broad term that refers primarily to providing free, online access, without barriers permissions. In the current bibliometric study, a comparison was made between the number of articles and citations of OA articles and closed articles, published between 2014-2019 by Israeli researchers. The research data were collected and based on the Scopus database, which offered two categories during the data collection period for the current study: Open Access (articles in OA journals - the golden route) and Other (closed articles and articles from repositories - the green route). Therefore, the availability of each article - the existence of an open and legal version in the green route, was examined through Unpaywall and Dimensions databases. After this examination, each article is classified into one of two categories: an open-access or a closed-access article. Bibliometric findings according to the Scopus database indicate that the number of publications and citations in the closed approach was significantly higher than those OA articles. However, when examining the availability of each article using Unpaywall and Dimensions, the rate of open articles increased, to the point that no significance was obtained for the differences between the number of articles and citations of the closed and the open articles. The findings suggest that although articles are published in traditional toll-access journals, they are fully accessible online. The findings reveal the broad rate of scientific publication in the green route to OA by Israeli researchers.