In this lecture at ESOF 2018 Frontiers' CEO Kamila Markram demonstrates a clear citation advantage of Open Access journals over subscription journals. She also speaks about the leading role Europe takes to drive the transition to Open Science. Read also: https://blog.frontiersin.org/2018/07/11/scientific-excellence-at-scale-open-access-journals-have-a-clear-citation-advantage-over-subscription-journals/

1. Kamila Markram at ESOF 2018, July 11th
Open Science: the time is now,
the place is Europe!
Kamila Markram, PhD
Co-founder & CEO, Frontiers
Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Lausanne
ESOF 2018, July 11th

2. Kamila Markram at ESOF 2018, July 11th
Open Access
works

3. Kamila Markram at ESOF 2018, July 11th
4.2
0.6
0
1
2
3
4
5
Subscription Open Access
Articles(2015-17),Millions
2.7
2.9
2.6
2.7
2.7
2.8
2.8
2.9
2.9
Subscription Open Access
AverageCites(2015-17)
Articles Average Citations
(1,459 journals)(12,131 journals)(1,459 journals)(12,131 journals)
Open Access journals get more cites on average
Source: Scimago (2018). Data based on 20 top publishers by volume in 2017. Total document and citation counts are for the 3-year period ending 2017.
Publisher and business model assignments based on Scopus, DOAJ and official journal listings on publisher websites. More info and full dataset:
https://blog.frontiersin.org/2018/07/11/scientific-excellence-at-scale-open-access-journals-have-a-clear-citation-advantage-over-subscription-journals/

4. Kamila Markram at ESOF 2018, July 11th
Open Access journals get more cites across publishers
2.7
2.9
0
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
APS OUP ACS Springer
Nature
Frontiers RSC IOP IEEE PLOS Wiley MDPI Taylor &
Francis
AIP Elsevier Hindawi CUP Wolters
Kluwer
Sage Walter
de
Gruyter
SPIE
AverageCites(2015-2017)
Subscription Open Access Market subscription average Market OA average
American
Physical
Society
Oxford
University
Press
American
Chemical
Society
Royal
Society of
Chemistry
American
Institute of
Physics
Source: Scimago (2018). Data based on 20 top publishers by volume in 2017. Total document and citation counts are for the 3-year period ending 2017.
Publisher and business model assignments based on Scopus, DOAJ and official journal listings on publisher websites. More info and full dataset:
https://blog.frontiersin.org/2018/07/11/scientific-excellence-at-scale-open-access-journals-have-a-clear-citation-advantage-over-subscription-journals/

5. Kamila Markram at ESOF 2018, July 11th
Open Access journals get more cites across publishers
2.7
2.9
0
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
APS OUP ACS Springer
Nature
Frontiers RSC IOP IEEE PLOS Wiley MDPI Taylor &
Francis
AIP Elsevier Hindawi CUP Wolters
Kluwer
Sage Walter
de
Gruyter
SPIE
AverageCites(2015-2017)
Subscription Open Access Market subscription average Market OA average
Source: Scimago (2018). Data based on 20 top publishers by volume in 2017. Total document and citation counts are for the 3-year period ending 2017.
Publisher and business model assignments based on Scopus, DOAJ and official journal listings on publisher websites. More info and full dataset:
https://blog.frontiersin.org/2018/07/11/scientific-excellence-at-scale-open-access-journals-have-a-clear-citation-advantage-over-subscription-journals/
American
Physical
Society
Oxford
University
Press
American
Chemical
Society
Royal
Society of
Chemistry
American
Institute of
Physics

6. Kamila Markram at ESOF 2018, July 11th
Open Access journals get more cites across publishers
2.7
2.9
0
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
APS OUP ACS Springer
Nature
Frontiers RSC IOP IEEE PLOS Wiley MDPI Taylor &
Francis
AIP Elsevier Hindawi CUP Wolters
Kluwer
Sage Walter
de
Gruyter
SPIE
AverageCites(2015-2017)
Subscription Open Access Market subscription average Market OA average
Source: Scimago (2018). Data based on 20 top publishers by volume in 2017. Total document and citation counts are for the 3-year period ending 2017.
Publisher and business model assignments based on Scopus, DOAJ and official journal listings on publisher websites. More info and full dataset:
https://blog.frontiersin.org/2018/07/11/scientific-excellence-at-scale-open-access-journals-have-a-clear-citation-advantage-over-subscription-journals/
American
Physical
Society
Oxford
University
Press
American
Chemical
Society
Royal
Society of
Chemistry
American
Institute of
Physics

7. Kamila Markram at ESOF 2018, July 11th
Open Access journals get more cites across publishers
2.7
2.9
0
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
APS OUP ACS Springer
Nature
Frontiers RSC IOP IEEE PLOS Wiley MDPI Taylor &
Francis
AIP Elsevier Hindawi CUP Wolters
Kluwer
Sage Walter
de
Gruyter
SPIE
AverageCites(2015-2017)
Subscription Open Access Market subscription average Market OA average
Source: Scimago (2018). Data based on 20 top publishers by volume in 2017. Total document and citation counts are for the 3-year period ending 2017.
Publisher and business model assignments based on Scopus, DOAJ and official journal listings on publisher websites. More info and full dataset:
https://blog.frontiersin.org/2018/07/11/scientific-excellence-at-scale-open-access-journals-have-a-clear-citation-advantage-over-subscription-journals/
American
Physical
Society
Oxford
University
Press
American
Chemical
Society
Royal
Society of
Chemistry
American
Institute of
Physics

8. Kamila Markram at ESOF 2018, July 11th
Open Access journals get more cites across publishers
2.7
2.9
0
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
APS OUP ACS Springer
Nature
Frontiers RSC IOP IEEE PLOS Wiley MDPI Taylor &
Francis
AIP Elsevier Hindawi CUP Wolters
Kluwer
Sage Walter
de
Gruyter
SPIE
AverageCites(2015-2017)
Subscription Open Access Market subscription average Market OA average
Source: Scimago (2018). Data based on 20 top publishers by volume in 2017. Total document and citation counts are for the 3-year period ending 2017.
Publisher and business model assignments based on Scopus, DOAJ and official journal listings on publisher websites. More info and full dataset:
https://blog.frontiersin.org/2018/07/11/scientific-excellence-at-scale-open-access-journals-have-a-clear-citation-advantage-over-subscription-journals/
American
Physical
Society
Oxford
University
Press
American
Chemical
Society
Royal
Society of
Chemistry
American
Institute of
Physics

9. Kamila Markram at ESOF 2018, July 11th
Open Access journals get more cites across publishers
2.7
2.9
0
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
APS OUP ACS Springer
Nature
Frontiers RSC IOP IEEE PLOS Wiley MDPI Taylor &
Francis
AIP Elsevier Hindawi CUP Wolters
Kluwer
Sage Walter
de
Gruyter
SPIE
AverageCites(2015-2017)
Subscription Open Access Market subscription average Market OA average
Source: Scimago (2018). Data based on 20 top publishers by volume in 2017. Total document and citation counts are for the 3-year period ending 2017.
Publisher and business model assignments based on Scopus, DOAJ and official journal listings on publisher websites. More info and full dataset:
https://blog.frontiersin.org/2018/07/11/scientific-excellence-at-scale-open-access-journals-have-a-clear-citation-advantage-over-subscription-journals/
American
Physical
Society
Oxford
University
Press
American
Chemical
Society
Royal
Society of
Chemistry
American
Institute of
Physics

10. Kamila Markram at ESOF 2018, July 11th
Open Access journals get more cites across publishers
2.7
2.9
0
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
APS OUP ACS Springer
Nature
Frontiers RSC IOP IEEE PLOS Wiley MDPI Taylor &
Francis
AIP Elsevier Hindawi CUP Wolters
Kluwer
Sage Walter
de
Gruyter
SPIE
AverageCites(2015-2017)
Subscription Open Access Market subscription average Market OA average
Source: Scimago (2018). Data based on 20 top publishers by volume in 2017. Total document and citation counts are for the 3-year period ending 2017.
Publisher and business model assignments based on Scopus, DOAJ and official journal listings on publisher websites. More info and full dataset:
https://blog.frontiersin.org/2018/07/11/scientific-excellence-at-scale-open-access-journals-have-a-clear-citation-advantage-over-subscription-journals/
American
Physical
Society
Oxford
University
Press
American
Chemical
Society
Royal
Society of
Chemistry
American
Institute of
Physics

11. Kamila Markram at ESOF 2018, July 11th
2.7
2.9
0
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
APS OUP ACS Springer
Nature
Frontiers RSC IOP IEEE PLOS Wiley MDPI Taylor &
Francis
AIP Elsevier Hindawi CUP Wolters
Kluwer
Sage Walter
de
Gruyter
SPIE
AverageCites(2015-2017)
Subscription Open Access Market subscription average Market OA average
Open Access journals get more cites across publishers
Source: Scimago (2018). Data based on 20 top publishers by volume in 2017. Total document and citation counts are for the 3-year period ending 2017.
Publisher and business model assignments based on Scopus, DOAJ and official journal listings on publisher websites. More info and full dataset:
https://blog.frontiersin.org/2018/07/11/scientific-excellence-at-scale-open-access-journals-have-a-clear-citation-advantage-over-subscription-journals/
American
Physical
Society
Oxford
University
Press
American
Chemical
Society
Royal
Society of
Chemistry
American
Institute of
Physics

12. Kamila Markram at ESOF 2018, July 11th
Frontiers is the 4th most cited publisher
0.83
1.37
1.38
1.65
1.7
1.74
1.92
2.07
2.1
2.16
2.35
3.01
3.1
3.17
3.25
3.64
3.65
3.79
5.01
6.59
0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7
Walter de Gruyter
Cambridge University Press
Taylor & Francis
Hindawi
American Institute of Physics
Sage
IOP Publishing
Wolters Kluwer
IEEE
BMJ Publishing Group
Springer Nature
Wiley
MDPI
Elsevier
PLOS
Oxford University Press
Frontiers
American Physical Society
Royal Society of Chemistry
American Chemical Society
Average citations
#4Most cited
(out of the 20 largest)
Frontiers
Source: Scimago (2018). Data based on 20 top publishers by volume in 2017. Total document and citation counts are for the 3-year period ending 2017.
Publisher and business model assignments based on Scopus, DOAJ and official journal listings on publisher websites. More info and full dataset:
https://blog.frontiersin.org/2018/07/11/scientific-excellence-at-scale-open-access-journals-have-a-clear-citation-advantage-over-subscription-journals/

13. Kamila Markram at ESOF 2018, July 11th
Frontiers is the 4th most cited publisher
0.83
1.37
1.38
1.65
1.7
1.74
1.92
2.07
2.1
2.16
2.35
3.01
3.1
3.17
3.25
3.64
3.65
3.79
5.01
6.59
0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7
Walter de Gruyter
Cambridge University Press
Taylor & Francis
Hindawi
American Institute of Physics
Sage
IOP Publishing
Wolters Kluwer
IEEE
BMJ Publishing Group
Springer Nature
Wiley
MDPI
Elsevier
PLOS
Oxford University Press
Frontiers
American Physical Society
Royal Society of Chemistry
American Chemical Society
Average citations
#4Most cited
(out of the 20 largest)
Frontiers
Source: Scimago (2018). Data based on 20 top publishers by volume in 2017. Total document and citation counts are for the 3-year period ending 2017.
Publisher and business model assignments based on Scopus, DOAJ and official journal listings on publisher websites. More info and full dataset:
https://blog.frontiersin.org/2018/07/11/scientific-excellence-at-scale-open-access-journals-have-a-clear-citation-advantage-over-subscription-journals/

14. Kamila Markram at ESOF 2018, July 11th
Frontiers open access journals are top cited
2017 Journal Citation Reports (Clarivate Analytics, 2018)
Data Source: 2017 Journal Citation Reports (Clarivate Analytics, 2018). Displayed is the total number of citations generated in 2017 to articles published in 2015 and 2016.
Read also: https://blog.frontiersin.org/2018/07/02/impact-factor-scientific-academic-journal-ranking/

15. Kamila Markram at ESOF 2018, July 11th
Open access journals are top cited
2017 Journal Citation Reports (Clarivate Analytics, 2018)
Multidisciplinary Science (64 journals)
Data Source: 2017 Journal Citation Reports (Clarivate Analytics, 2018). Displayed is the total number of citations generated in 2017 to articles published in 2015 and 2016.
Read also: https://blog.frontiersin.org/2018/07/02/impact-factor-scientific-academic-journal-ranking/

16. Kamila Markram at ESOF 2018, July 11th
Frontiers journals rank in the top percentiles on Impact Factor
2017 Journal Citation Reports (Clarivate Analytics, 2018)
Data Source: 2017 Journal Citation Reports (JCR, Clarivate Analytics, 2018). Journals are ranked by their 2017 Impact Factor percentile within the 23 categories where Frontiers journals (yellow dots) are indexed. Across
all 11,655 titles in the 2017-JCR, Frontiers journals rank, on average, at the 74th percentile, with the highest journal ranking at the 91th percentile. The Impact Factor is the average number of citations generated in
2017 to articles published in 2015 and 2016. Read also: https://blog.frontiersin.org/2018/07/02/impact-factor-scientific-academic-journal-ranking/

17. Kamila Markram at ESOF 2018, July 11th
Frontiers journals rank in the top percentiles on Impact Factor
2017 Journal Citation Reports (Clarivate Analytics, 2018)
Data Source: 2017 Journal Citation Reports (JCR, Clarivate Analytics, 2018). Journals are ranked by their 2017 Impact Factor percentile within the 23 categories where Frontiers journals (yellow dots) are indexed. Across
all 11,655 titles in the 2017-JCR, Frontiers journals rank, on average, at the 74th percentile, with the highest journal ranking at the 91th percentile. The Impact Factor is the average number of citations generated in
2017 to articles published in 2015 and 2016. Read also: https://blog.frontiersin.org/2018/07/02/impact-factor-scientific-academic-journal-ranking/

18. Kamila Markram at ESOF 2018, July 11th
Frontiers journals rank in the top percentiles on CiteScore
2017 CiteScore, Scopus (Elsevier)
Data Source: 2017 CiteScore, Scopus database (Elsevier). Journals are ranked by their 2017 CiteScore percentiles within the 55 Scopus categories in which 35 different Frontiers journals (yellow dots) are
indexed. Across all 25,322 titles in the CiteScore (Scopus) 2017 edition, Frontiers journals rank, on average, at the 85th percentile, with the highest journal ranking at the 96th percentile. The CiteScore is the
average number of citations generated in 2017 to articles published in 2014, 2015 and 2016. Read also: https://blog.frontiersin.org/2018/07/02/impact-factor-scientific-academic-journal-ranking

19. Kamila Markram at ESOF 2018, July 11th
Frontiers journals rank in the top percentiles on CiteScore
2017 CiteScore, Scopus (Elsevier)
Data Source: 2017 CiteScore, Scopus database (Elsevier). Journals are ranked by their 2017 CiteScore percentiles within the 55 Scopus categories in which 35 different Frontiers journals (yellow dots) are
indexed. Across all 25,322 titles in the CiteScore (Scopus) 2017 edition, Frontiers journals rank, on average, at the 85th percentile, with the highest journal ranking at the 96th percentile. The CiteScore is the
average number of citations generated in 2017 to articles published in 2014, 2015 and 2016. Read also: https://blog.frontiersin.org/2018/07/02/impact-factor-scientific-academic-journal-ranking

20. Kamila Markram at ESOF 2018, July 11th
Scientific excellence
at scale

21. Kamila Markram at ESOF 2018, July 11th

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80’000 Editors & Reviewers
1,432
932
746
704
563
541
524
481
460
410
374
362
355
345
313
313
310
297
283
272
271
271
271
259
256
250
245
243
240
239
University of California System
Centre national de la recherche scientifique (CNRS)
Harvard University
University of Texas System
National Institutes of Health (NIH)
Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas (CSIC)
State University System of Florida
Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Médicale (INSERM)
Chinese Academy of Sciences
Helmholtz-Gemeinschaft Deutscher Forschungszentren (HZ)
Consiglio Nazionale Delle Ricerche (CNR)
Max-Planck-Gesellschaft (MPG)
University College London
Johns Hopkins University
Stanford University
University of Michigan
Institut National de la Recherche Agronomique (INRA)
University of Pittsburgh
The State University of New York (SUNY)
Universidade de São Paulo
Sapienza Università di Roma
University of Oxford
University of Toronto
Universität Zürich
King's College London
University of Pennsylvania
Università degli Studi di Padova
University of Cambridge
The University of Queensland
Imperial College London
Data Source: Frontiers, total number of editors and reviewers on the Frontiers editorial boards.

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90’000 published articles – 64% from world’s top 300 institutions
0%
10%
20%
30%
40%
50%
60%
70%
Top
10
Top
20
Top
30
Top
40
Top
50
Top
60
Top
70
Top
80
Top
90
Top
100
Top
110
Top
120
Top
130
Top
140
Top
150
Top
160
Top
170
Top
180
Top
190
Top
200
Top
210
Top
220
Top
230
Top
240
Top
250
Top
260
Top
270
Top
280
Top
290
Top
300
6%
33%
20%
52%
64%
Based on Web of Science university ranking 2018
Data Source: Cumulated % of published Frontiers authors based on Web of Science university ranking

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Submission Independent
Review
Interactive
Review
Decision Final
Validation
Published

26. Kamila Markram at ESOF 2018, July 11th

27. Kamila Markram at ESOF 2018, July 11th

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420 million article views & downloads
Data Source: Frontiers article metrics, total views and downloads to ~90’000 articles published, views and downloads sampled in June 2018.

29. Kamila Markram at ESOF 2018, July 11th
420 million article views & downloads
15,000,000
13,000,000
Data Source: Frontiers article metrics, total views and downloads to ~90’000 articles published, views and downloads sampled in June 2018.

30. Kamila Markram at ESOF 2018, July 11th

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Open Science
now

32. Kamila Markram at ESOF 2018, July 11th
All publicly funded scientific papers
published in Europe are to be
made free to access by 2020.
Carlos Moedas, European Commissioner for Research,
Science and Innovation
May 27th 2016, https://www.theguardian.com/science/2016/may/28/eu-ministers-2020-target-free-access-scientific-papers?CMP=twt_a-science_b-gdnscience
14%
37%
53%
0
10
20
30
40
50
60
Global UK EU-Funded
Proportion of articles accessible immediatly on
publication (Gold and Green Open Access)
Global: Scimago 2016, Scopus, UK: 2016 data from Monitoring the transition to Open Access (2017), EU funded: 2014 data

33. Kamila Markram at ESOF 2018, July 11th
Europe
North America
Asia
Oceania
South America
Africa
49%
of all Frontiers
articles
from Europe
81,000 editors
33,757
26,082
10,930
3,355
2,389
647
42%
of all Frontiers
editors
from Europe
90,000 articles
43,958
31,860
20,361
4,893
3,954
1,233
305,000 authors
125,415
79,931
75,268
10,495
12,932
2,979
41%
of all Frontiers
authors
from Europe
Open Science has been embraced by the European academic community
Data: Frontiers, as of July 2018

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European research has high impact (based on Frontiers sample)
Data: Frontiers, average views and downloads on Frontiers articles published in 2013, average citations to Frontiers articles published in 2013.
Average views and downloads per article
5,373
5,032
4,620
4,607
4,485
4,485
4,439
4,411
4,321
4,203
United Kingdom
Netherlands
United States
Switzerland
Germany
Japan
France
Spain
Australia
Canada
Netherlands
Australia
France
Spain
United States
Germany
Canada
United Kingdom
Italy
Japan
Average citations per article
16.3
15.9
15.3
15.2
14.3
13.8
13.8
13.8
13.4
13.1

35. Kamila Markram at ESOF 2018, July 11th
European research has high impact (based on Frontiers sample)
Data: Frontiers, average views and downloads on Frontiers articles published in 2013, average citations to Frontiers articles published in 2013.
Average views and downloads per article
5,373
5,032
4,620
4,607
4,485
4,485
4,439
4,411
4,321
4,203
United Kingdom
Netherlands
United States
Switzerland
Germany
Japan
France
Spain
Australia
Canada
Netherlands
Australia
France
Spain
United States
Germany
Canada
United Kingdom
Italy
Japan
Average citations per article
16.3
15.9
15.3
15.2
14.3
13.8
13.8
13.8
13.4
13.1

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EU funded research has highest impact (based on Frontiers sample)
Data: Frontiers, average views and downloads on Frontiers articles published in 2013, average citations to Frontiers articles published in 2013.
5,373
5,032
5,003
4,620
4,607
4,485
4,485
4,439
4,411
4,321
4,203
United Kingdom
Netherlands
EU Funded
United States
Switzerland
Germany
Japan
France
Spain
Australia
Canada
EU Funded
Netherlands
Australia
France
Spain
United States
Germany
Canada
United Kingdom
Italy
Japan
19.0
16.3
15.9
15.3
15.2
14.3
13.8
13.8
13.8
13.4
13.1
Average views and downloads per article Average citations per article

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103 collaborations with universities and funders simplify the process for authors

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First Landmark National Open Access Agreements
“The Austrian Science Fund (FWF) is pleased to be one of the
first signatories of the fully transparent Gold open access
Agreement with Frontiers. Transparency of costs, conditions
and services is a precondition to strengthen Open
Science; hence, this agreement may serve as a role model in
terms of openness for further agreements”
Klement Tockner
President of the Austrian Science Fund (FWF)
https://blog.frontiersin.org/2017/12/20/open-access-publishing-deal-university-vienna-austrian-science-fund/
“We are now making clear that entering into agreements with
gold Open Access publishers is an important route to
reaching the goal of immediate Open Access”
Anna Lundén
Head of National Coordination of Libraries
National Library of Sweden
https://blog.frontiersin.org/2018/06/01/sweden-open-access-publishing-deal/

39. Kamila Markram at ESOF 2018, July 11th
Open Science
Machine-
readable
AI-ready

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Innovation
Economic
Growth
Sustainable
Future

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