خلاصة:
This study portrays the status of Open Access Journals in the ten countries joining the Association of Southeast Asian Nations. Integrating the data from the ASEAN Citation Index, Directory of Open Access Journals, and Scopus, each captured from wider to narrower angels, this work could take a better full-length portrait of such journals including some relevant information in the region.In the first index, the nine countries registered 587 journals, over 50% not listed in the second index. In the second index, the six member states published 1,623 journals of which 39% adopted Creative Common BY. For about two decades they have shown publication and registration growth rates over double than the world has. Indonesia could dominate in all but the third index. In Scopus, the journals in the region averaged below the global averages of all bibliometric indicators but Scholarly Output. Despite this, three countries were above the global average in eight indicators. Over 40% of the 98 journals were ranked in Quartile 2.Such a marked contrast between the number of journals indexed in the second index and that in the third one could lead to the better intra- and inter- collaborations to give the scientific productivity higher visibility and impact.
ملخص الجهاز:
Integrating the data from the ASEAN Citation Index, Directory of Open Access Journals, and Scopus, each captured from wider to narrower angels, this work could take a better full-length portrait of such journals including some relevant information in the region.
Such inconclusive evidence for the quality of OAJs has made the relevant indexing services, either calculating impact factors such as Scopus or not such as Directory of Open Access Journals/DOAJ (Astaneh & Masoumi, 2017), almost inevitable when addressing the quality of OAJs. Erfanmanesh, Tahira, and Abrizah (2017) concluded that the number of journals indexed in one or more citation databases could tell the scientific performance of a certain country.
All member states also constantly strive to improve academic performance and research productivity in the global area of higher education, for example by mandating an article published in a science journal as a requirement for the undergraduate and graduate final examinations in Indonesia (Wiryawan, 2014).
The global and regional share of OAJs in ASEAN In Southeast Asia, the Journal of Associated Medical Sciences by Chiang Mai University (Thailand) has provided open access contents since 1968.
In the regional citation index, whether a journal provides open access or not does not matter as far as it is published in one of the ten member states.
Besides, previous studies have shown that some bibliometric indicators in CiteScore by Scopus had moderate to high positive correlations with those in Journal Citation Reports (Ahmad, Sohail & Abdel-Magid 2017; Garcia-Pachon & Arencibia-Jorge, 2014; Ghane & Niazmand, 2016; Yuen, 2018).
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