作者：Chaohai Shena, Star X. Zhao*,b,c, Xiaolan Zhoud
作者单位：
a: School of Business Administration, East China Normal University, Shanghai 200062
b: Institute of Big Data, Fudan University, Shanghai 200433
c: National Institute of Intelligent Evaluation and Governance, Fudan University, Shanghai 200433
d: School of Economics, Shandong University, Jinan, Shandong 250100
摘要：Despite the recent moving towards open access trend in the academic community, both restricted and open access journals continue to coexist. New journals need to choose their journal types (open versus restricted access), while the incumbent journals may change their journal types. To better understand how the academic community is shaped by journals’ choices of journal types, we constructed a game-theoretical model of journal competition with endogenous journal qualities and journal types. We found that journals’ equilibrium quality and types vary by article processing charge (APC) and journals’ preference for quality. Compared to the case that both journals are open access, a competition among journals of different types leads to higher journal quality standards chosen in equilibrium when APC is modest. Therefore, in the academic community where the research quality is measured by the highest quality of the journals therein, journals of different types guarantee a good degree of knowledge diffusion with a high quality.
关键词：Open access; Restricted access; Journal competition; Research quality
来源期刊：Journal of Informetrics
发表时间：2023-07-23
DOI：https://doi.org/10.1016/j.joi.2023.101429
收录数据库：elsevier
