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1. Citation and economic impact of
open access publishing:
Examples from the developing world
D. K. Sahu, MD (Peds)
Managing Director, Medknow Publications Pvt Ltd
Editor, Indian Journal of Medical Sciences
Executive Editor, Neurology India
Managing Editor, Journal of Postgraduate Medicine

2. Journals from DC are important
• Flow of knowledge
– South to North
• “International” journals are not international
– Content / Readers / Editorial board
• Local importance
– Local knowledge / local evidence
– Policy making

3. Limited visibility = lost impact
Limited circulation
Fewer authors and Circle of Poor visibility and
subscriptions limited readership
accessibility
Limited recognition
Fewer citations

6. Fee-less immediate free access

13. Medknow’s Publishing model
• Online submission and review system
– Saves time and resources
• Immediate free access
– Increases visibility
– Attracts authors and citations
• Sources of revenue
– Print subscriptions
– Advertisements – print and online
– Membership fee
– Reprints
• No author / author institution fee

14. The OA impact
• Visibility
• Journals’ performances
• On subscriptions and economics
• Research Impact

15. Visibility

23. Journals’ performances

24. Impact on article submissions

25. More international submissions

27. Other impacts
• International recognition
– 13 journals in SCI in 2 years
• More articles per issue
– 40 articles in 2005 vs. 160+ articles in 2008 in
IJU
– Higher no. of original research papers
• More issues per year
– Increase in frequency for 6 journals
• Regularity of publication
– 9 journals published ahead of schedule

28. The economics and subscriptions

29. Are we losing print subscriptions?

30. Additional revenue

31. Research Impact

34. Is it due to OA?
• 558 authors who cited articles
• 68% from PubMed, 10% from web
• 63% used an OA source for full text
• If not OA
– 35% would not have quoted article
– 26% would have quoted on basis of abstract
– <5% would pay for access

35. Conclusions
• For a journal, open access
– helps to improve visibility
– helps to attract authors
– helps to improve quality
– helps to increase research impact
– does not affect subscriptions

36. Thank you
www.medknow.com
dksahu@medknow.com