Author(s)

Debrayan Bravo Hidalgo, Marco Vinicio Cevallos Bravo, William Marcelo Ponce Iturralde

Administrative Sciences Department, Central University of Ecuador, Quito, Ecuador.

The purpose of this research is to establish a comparative analysis between open access journals and those open access journals whose sole purpose is to research on energy as a socialized conduit. To achieve such objective three tools will be used, namely: 1) the bibliographic database of abstracts, 2) the citations of articles for scientific journals, including Scopus, and 3) bibliometric analysis. Different studies show research that has been published in non-open access journals is larger in content than those published in open access journals. Non-open access journals establish a trend indicating better SNIP and SJR scores in comparison to their open access journal counterparts. Such trends are considered very atypical, and they certainly cannot be pre-determined in other areas of knowledge which would include: medicine, agronomy, biochemistry, mathematics, and planetary sciences. So far, the United Kingdom has been the leading-edge country which has provided more funding for both non-open access journals and open access journals in terms of energy research.

Energy, Journals, Citation, Bibliometrics, Open Access, Comparative, Indices

Hidalgo, D.B., Bravo, M.V.C. and Iturralde, W.M.P. (2023) Comparative Study of Open Access and Non-Open Access Journals in Subject Area Energy. Open Access Library Journal, 10, 1-11. doi: 10.4236/oalib.1110426.