Preprints (www.preprints.org) | NOT PEER-REVIEWED | Posted: 30 October 2020 Review Open Bioeconomy. A Review of the Literature Marianne Duquenne 1, Hélène Prost 2, Joachim Schöpfel 3,* and Franck Dumeignil 4 1 Univ. Lille, ULR 4073 - GERiiCO - Groupe d’Études et de Recherche Interdisciplinaire en Information et Communication, F-59000 Lille, France;
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[email protected] Abstract: The purpose of this paper is to assess the degree of openness of scientific articles on bioeconomy. Based on a WoS corpus of 2,489 articles published between 2015 and 2019, we calculated bibliometric indicators, explored the openness of each paper and assessed the share of journals, countries and research areas of these articles. The results show a sharp increase and diversification of articles in the field of bioeconomy, with a beginning long tail distribution. 45.6% of the articles are freely available, and the share of OA papers is steadily increasing, from 31% in 2015 to 52% in 2019. Gold is the most important variant of OA. Open access is low in the applied research areas of chemical, agricultural and environmental engineering but higher in the domains of energy and fuels, forestry, and green and sustainable science and technology.