A Study of Scholarly Open Access Journals in DOAJ with Special Reference to Business and Management

Abstract

Open access (OA) journals in 'Business and Management' have grown in number over a period and analysis of it provides an insight and understanding of the factors, which led to such growth. The study using quantitative records method analyses downloaded metadata of publications from 'Directory of Open Access Journals' (DOAJ). From the analysis of data, it reports 427 Business and Management journals indexed in the directory reflecting impressive year wise growth rate, which has jumped to 92.27% from 2011. Results and discussions indicate about cent percent peer review process followed by these journals, with 78.69% journals not levying any Article Processing Charges (APC) and more than 99% of these, publishing articles under Creative Commons (CC) license. Further, the study confirms quantitative analysis of various factors such as country of origin, language, ranking, inclusion in citation indexes and UGC CARE list, digital archiving, etc.