OpenEdition Bibliometric Report

Introduction

This report provides a comprehensive analytics report of the publisher OpenEdition including basic bibliometric information, citation data, impact metrics, top journals, publication keywords, etc., over recent years. The Crossref database (up to the end of 2021) processed by ScienceGate has been used for this report as the source of data.

OpenEdition has published 447776 documents so far, receiving a total of 112917 citations. These numbers are equal to 0.37% and 0.01% of the total documents and citations in the scientific community, respectively. OpenEdition has a score of 0.25 as a number of citations per document based on all recorded data. There are different types of documents published by OpenEdition. In this regard, Journal Article, Chapter, Proceedings Article, Book, Monograph, and Proceedings a with the total document number of 258268, 178622, 74, 5292, 5517, and 3 have the largest share, respectively. These numbers are equal to 57.68%, 39.89%, 0.02%, 1.18%, 1.23%, and 0.00% of the total documents published in OpenEdition so far, respectively. OpenEdition has been an active publisher from 1921-2021.

Basic Bibliometric Information

This section provides the bibliometrics data of OpenEdition over the last 11 years, including the number of published documents, total citations, citations per document, and scaled number of citations per document by year. Share of OpenEdition documents and citations among all published scientific documents are also presented here. OpenEdition has the highest annual number of publications in 2016, with 57178 published documents. Most annual citations are also received in 2020, with 164 citations. The highest citations per document’s scores, scaled by the number of years ahead, are associated with 2020, with scores of 0.01.

Document Types

There are different types of documents published by publishers. In this section, the yearly publication data of OpenEdition are presented by document type, including Journal Articles, Chapters, Monographs, Books, Proceeding Articles, and Proceedingss.

The number of published documents by OpenEdition are 258268, 178622, 5517, 5292, 74, and 3 for Journal Articles, Chapters, Monographs, Books, Proceeding Articles, and Proceedingss, respectively. These numbers are equal to 0.28%, 1.13%, 0.95%, 0.60%, 0.00%, and 0.01% of the whole published Journal Articles, Chapters, Monographs, Books, Proceeding Articles, and Proceedingss in the database so far, respectively.

The number of received citations by Journal Articles, Chapters, Monographs, Books, Proceeding Articles, and Proceedingss of OpenEdition are 82833, 9872, 14470, 5719, 23, and 0, respectively. These numbers are equal to 0.01%, 0.06%, 0.26%, 0.08%, 0.00%, and 0.00% of the citations received by whole Journal Articles, Chapters, Monographs, Books, Proceeding Articles, and Proceedingss of the database so far, respectively.

The h-index value for published Journal Articles, Chapters, Monographs, Books, Proceeding Articles, and Proceedingss by OpenEdition are 42, 20, 39, 23, 2, and 0, respectively. The corresponding values for the whole data of the database are 3201, 588, 760, 793, 615, and 25, respectively.

The g-index value for published Journal Articles, Chapters, Monographs, Books, Proceeding Articles, and Proceedingss by OpenEdition are 10, 6, 9, 7, 2, and 0, respectively. The corresponding values for the whole data of the database are 129, 48, 60, 60, 50, and 8, respectively.

The score of citations per document for published Journal Articles, Chapters, Monographs, Books, Proceeding Articles, and Proceedingss by OpenEdition are 0.321, 0.055, 2.623, 1.081, 0.311, and 0.000, respectively. The corresponding values for the whole data of the database are 11.521, 1.016, 9.566, 8.593, 2.540, and 0.199, respectively.

The highest number of annually published Journal Articles, Chapters, Monographs, Books, Proceeding Articles, and Proceedingss by OpenEdition are 15897, 40690, 281, 339, 31, and 1, respectively. The corresponding year of maximum publication for Journal Articles, Chapters, Monographs, Books, Proceeding Articles, and Proceedingss are 2016, 2016, 2014, 2015, 2018, and 2020, respectively.

The highest number of annual received citations by Journal Articles, Chapters, Monographs, Books, Proceeding Articles, and Proceedingss published in OpenEdition are 6449, 2525, 585, 315, 23, and 0, respectively. The corresponding years of maximum received citations for Journal Articles, Chapters, Monographs, Books, Proceeding Articles, and Proceedingss are 2010, 2016, 2010, 2010, 2018, and 2020, respectively.

The highest values of citations per number of document for Journal Articles, Chapters, Monographs, Books, Proceeding Articles, and Proceedingss published in OpenEdition are 0.51, 0.06, 2.45, 1.21, 0.74, and 0.00, respectively. The corresponding years of maximum values of citations per document for Journal Articles, Chapters, Monographs, Books, Proceeding Articles, and Proceedingss are 2010, 2010, 2010, 2010, 2018, and 2020, respectively.

Impact Metrics

Various metrics and indicators are used to evaluate the impact and quality of publishers and journals. Here, h-index, g-index, and i-index are selected as impact evaluation metrics of the publisher OpenEdition.

H-index

H-index indicates the number of articles published by a journal/publisher, h, that have been cited at least h times. h5-index and h10-index are the h-index for papers of a publishers/journals published in the last 5 and 10 years, respectively. h-index, h10-index, and h5-index of the documents published by OpenEdition, are 55, 25, and 17, respectively. The corresponding values for the whole data of the database are 3269, 1489, and 795, respectively.

G-index

The g-index indicator is the first g papers of a publisher/journal (sorted by the highest to the lowest number of citations) that have cumulatively received at least g^2 citations. Again, g5-index and g10-index are the g-index for papers of a publishers/journals published in the last 5 and 10 years, respectively. G-index, g10-index, and g5-index of the documents published by OpenEdition are 10, 7, and 6, respectively. The corresponding values for the whole data of the database are 131, 80, and 55, respectively.

I-n index

I-n index shows the number of publications of a publisher/journal with at least n citations. Read another post here for more detailed information on different research impact metrics. It is to be noted that, i10-index, i25-index, i50-index, i100-index, i250-index, i500-index, i1000-index, i2500-index, i5000-index, and i10000-index of the documents published by OpenEdition, are 1714, 255, 64, 8, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, and 0, respectively. The corresponding values for the whole data of the database are 21796896, 10617845, 4822066, 1785083, 390499, 114230, 31648, 5505, 1423, and 355, respectively.

Top Journals

This section provides the basic bibliometrics data of the OpenEdition top journals, including the number of published documents, total citations, and citations per document. Share of documents and citations of each journal among all published documents by OpenEdition is also presented here. In the following tag cloud chart, top journals are displayed based on the largest number of published documents.

The Top 5 journals of OpenEdition based on the number of published documents are Studi Francesi, Abstracta Iranica, Lectures, Critique d’art, and ADLFI Archéologie de la France – Informations. The numbers of documents published so far by these top 5 journals are 8893, 6152, 5782, 4811, and 4702, respectively. These numbers are equal to 1.986%, 1.374%, 1.291%, 1.074%, and 1.050% of the total documents published by OpenEdition so far, respectively.

Concerning the number of received citations, the top 5 journals of OpenEdition are Sociologie du Travail, Cahiers d études africaines, Revue française de pédagogie, L Homme, and Revue européenne de migrations internationales. The total number of citations received so far by these top 5 journals are 4370, 2790, 2073, 3048, and 1358, respectively. These numbers are equal to 3.870%, 2.471%, 1.836%, 2.699%, and 1.203% of the total citations received by OpenEdition publications so far, respectively.

Regarding the number of citations received per document, the top 5 journals of OpenEdition are Revue française de pédagogie, Revue européenne de migrations internationales, Cahiers d études africaines, Terrain, and Sociologie du Travail. The numbers of citations received per published document so far by these top 5 journals are 2.043, 2.678, 2.533, 1.489, and 1.740, respectively.

Top Keywords

The Most used keywords are of particular importance for reviewing a publisher. This section provides detailed information about basic bibliometrics data of top used keywords in OpenEdition. The metrics used here are the number of documents, citations and citations per document. Share of documents and citations of each keyword among whole published documents is also presented here. In the following tag cloud chart, top keywords are displayed based on the largest number of published documents.

According to the number of published documents, the top 10 keywords of the publisher OpenEdition are xixe siècle, xixe siecle, moyen âge, moyen age, xviiie siècle, xviiie siecle, xviie siecle, sciences sociales, développement durable, and premiere partie, respectively. The number of published documents in which the mentioned 10 keywords are used are, 2602, 2602, 2524, 2524, 1949, 1949, 940, 613, 574, and 516, respectively.

Based on the number of received citations, the top 10 keywords of the publisher OpenEdition are développement durable, sciences sociales, xixe siècle, xixe siecle, moyen âge, moyen age, xviiie siècle, xviiie siecle, changement climatique, and burkina faso, respectively. The number of citations received by the documents in which the mentioned 10 keywords are used are, 574, 613, 2602, 2602, 2524, 2524, 1949, 1949, 212, and 278, respectively.

Concerning the score of received citations per document, the top 10 keywords of the publisher OpenEdition are climate change, changements climatiques, afrique de l’ouest, afrique de l’ouest, formation professionnelle, développement durable, the social, changement climatique, the state, and côte d’ivoire, respectively. The score of citations received per document in which the mentioned 10 keywords are used are, 1.314, 1.090, 1.045, 1.045, 0.949, 0.943, 0.856, 0.821, 0.754, and 0.748, respectively.