CURRENT STATUS OF OPEN ACCESS (OA) PUBLISHING IN INDIA: ANALYSIS OF SCOPUS DATA

Abstract

The present study aims to determine the current status of open-access publishing in India in terms of the number of publications (articles), annual growth, organizations, major subject areas, countries, and major journals. This study used Scopus data as the source database and retrieved the records of open-access (OA) and non-open-access (NOA) articles published from 2014 to 2023. According to Scopus database records, only 0.73% of India’s open-access literature contributed to the global open-access literature in the past ten years (2014-2023). The annual growth of open-access literature rapidly increased from 36.26% to 51.27% across the globe. India was found to have increased by 9.58%. Based on Scopus data, India ranks 12th globally in open-access publishing. The United States of America (the USA, China, the United Kingdom (UK), and Germany) are at the top in terms of open-access publishing, with India placing twelfth. The Indian Institute of Science (IISc.), 2.31%; the All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS) 2.01%, and Tata Institute of Fundamental Research (TIFR), 1.83% of open-access literature produced in India. Overall, most open-access articles are published on medicine, biology, chemistry, and engineering topics across the world. Plose One, Scientific Reports, and IEEE Access journals are involved in publishing open-access literature.