Current Status of Open Access in Italy

Focus on Open Science – Chapter IV Rome, May 2018

Massimiliano Carloni Agenda

1. Clarivate Analytics 2. Web of Science and Open Access discoverability 3. Open Access: overall numbers 4. Open Access in Italy: numbers and trend 5. Open Access in Italy: Impact 6. Ranking Time Change is scary But not as scary as staying the same forever

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1. Clarivate Analytics 2. Web of Science and Open Access discoverability 3. Open Access: overall numbers 4. Open Access in Italy: numbers and trend 5. Open Access in Italy: Impact 6. Ranking Time Impactstory Partnership Leading innovation in Open Access discovery and delivery

2014 2017 2018 ~10 million 2.2 million + Open Access items Openidentified Access in items Web of Scienceidentified Core in the Collection ClarivateClarivate Analytics partners invents with OA ImpactStory to Core Collection only Discoveryimprove OA identification for all. The picture was incomplete: GoldGold journalsjournals • The Web of Science now offers a more • Only itemscomplete in the Core picture Collection of trusted OA, Hybrid Gold articles were considered. including legal, peer-reviewed Green OA in WoS asGreen of November articles 2017, and Hybrid Gold content across all prior to new OA technology release • The status for other OA types, databases. Green manuscripts such as Hybrid Gold OA & Green OA, was• You missing. now have direct access to more free full text and can be confident that you are finding the best available, legal OA version. OA in WoS-CC as of May, 2018, with Unpaywall technology in place Article-level Open Access identification helps you find legally available Gold, Hybrid Gold, and Green articles. Web of Science provides access to the best available version of OA content

High priority Final version What sources do you Gold look at to identify Green Published Open Access material? Green Accepted Green Submitted Lower priority Pre-Peer Review Is my institutional • Only one OA link is provided per article, so researchers repository covered? retrieve the best version of an article, in most cases directly from the publisher. • Versions that have not completed peer review (i.e. Green Submitted) or whose copyright is not clear are intentionally omitted. Find out by viewing the • Versions from social networks (e.g. ResearchGate) and file- Unpaywall Source List sharing services (e.g. Sci-Hub) are excluded. Open Access Content is not selected differently Agenda

50,00% 47,81% ESCI 45,00% 47,27% 37,39% 40,00%

35,00%

30,00% 27,52% 26,67% 22,09% 24,55% 26,43% ALL 25,00% 24,31% 19,61% 25,61% 23,38% 20,00% WOS-3 14,93% 22,53%

15,00% 16,86% 10,64% 8,77% 13,29% 10,00% 4,42% 10,40% CPCI 3,50% 2,17% 2,95% 5,00% 1,21% 0,76% 1,79% BKCI 0,00% 0 2004 2 4 2008 6 8 2012 10 12 2016 201714 16 But is not the same the index breakdown

50,00% 47,81%

45,00% ESCI 37,39% 47,27% 40,00%

35,00%

27,52% 26,67% 30,00% 22,09% 24,55% 26,43%

25,00% 24,31% ALL 19,61% 23,38% 20,00% 14,93% 25,61% WOS-3 22,53% 15,00% 16,86% 10,00% 13,29%

5,00%

0,00% 0 2004 2 4 2008 6 8 2012 10 12 2016 201714 16

ESCI is made of emerging journals, many of them European (around 50%) and very much focused on social sciences OA situation considering WOS-CC indexes breakdown

Social Sciences areas are a bit behind Agenda

1. Clarivate Analytics 2. Web of Science and Open Access discoverablity 3. Open Access: overall numbers 4. Open Access in Italy: numbers and trend 5. Open Access in Italy: Impact 6. Ranking Time 23,51 26,32 29,87 % % %

22,50 %

22,54 % OA adoption in Europe

Italy is slightly below the European average

* Countries with more than 100,000 papers in 2004-2018 OA trend in Italy

The percentage of OPEN ACCESS publications with respect to the overall Italian production is quite stable in the last years and around 27-28% Which is the type of OA in Italy ?

23,51 % of papers with at least one author affiliated to an Italian institution, between 2004 (Messina’s declaration) and 2018, and indexed in the Web of Science Core Collection are Open Access. Around 8% of them are published in Gold Open Access Journals and 2,2% in Green repositories*

* As sourced via UNPAYWALL on May 2018 Which document types in Italian OA landscape ?

When looking at document types, the proportion of Open Access articles is 9% higher than the proportion of articles in the entire Italian production. The proportion of Open Access proceeding papers is however 8% lower than in the overall Italian production Which categories are more sensitive to OA ?

TOP 10 WOS CATEGORIES BY ABSOLUTE NUMBER OF OPEN ACCESS PAPERS 1. ASTRONOMY ASTROPHYSICS 2. ONCOLOGY 3. MULTIDISCIPLINARY SCIENCES 4. HEMATOLOGY 5. BIOCHEMISTRY MOLECULAR BIOLOGY 6. CARDIAC CARDIOVASCULAR SYSTEMS 7. CELL BIOLOGY 8. NEUROSCIENCES 9. IMMUNOLOGY 10. SURGERY Which categories are more sensitive to OA ?

TOP 10 WOS CATEGORIES BY RELATIVE NUMBER OF OA ARTICLES WITH RESPECT TO THE OVERALL TOTAL Which funding agencies have funded more OA papers?

TOP 10 FUNDING AGENCIES BY ABSOLUTE NUMBER OF OA ARTICLES IN THE TIME FRAME 2008*-2018 Agenda

1. Clarivate Analytics 2. Web of Science and Open Access discoverability 3. Open Access: overall numbers 4. Open Access in Italy: numbers and trend 5. Open Access in Italy: Impact 6. Ranking Time Impact of OA Italian publications: are OA papers any good ?

1,08% of all Italian publications published in 2017 are Highly Cited Papers. When considering only Open Access publications 1,66% are Highly Cited Papers

0,14% of all Italian publications published in 2017 are Hot Papers. When considering only Open Access publications 0,25% are Hot Papers Impact of OA Italian publications: are OA papers any good ?

Category Normalized Citation Impact (CNCI) of op 10 ESI categories for Italian publications

HIGHEST VISIBILITY: ON AVERAGE OPEN ACCESS PUBLICATIONS GET HIGHEST NORMALISED VALUES OF CITATIONS (CNCI & HIGHLY CITED PAPERS) AND ACCRUE CITATIONS IN A FASTEST WAY THAN NORMAL PUBLICATIONS (HOT PAPERS). Impact of OA Italian publications: are OA papers any good ?

19% 14% 14% 4%

Average increase in % Average increase in Average increase in AverageAverage increase increase in in DOCS CITED AVERAGE AVERAGEINT. CNCI considering only PERCENTILE considering only Italian Open Access PERCENTILE COLLABORATIONS Italian Open Access considering only considering only Italian vs. all Italian consideringOpen Access only vs. all vs. all Italian publications in 2017 Italian Open Access Italian OpenItalian publicationsAccess in publications in 201 7 vs. all Italian vs. 2017all Italian publications in 2017 publications in 2017 Agenda

35,11% 35,79% 32,16% Top Universities by percentage of OA papers?

SAPIENZA UNIVERSITY IS RANKED 31st OVERALL Massimiliano Carloni, Solutions Specialist | [email protected] | clarivate.com Bastien Blondin, Country Manager | [email protected] | clarivate.com