Are nationally oriented journals indexed in Scopus becoming more international? The effect of publication language and access modality

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Highlights：

• The paper examines whether nationally oriented journals entering Scopus are becoming more international.

• An Index of National Orientation (INO) is used, based on the geographical distribution of a journals’ publishing and citing authors.

• The relationship between a journal’s national orientation and its citation impact is found to be inverse U-shaped.

• About 40 per cent of journals do reveal traces of internationalization

• The use of English as publication language and an Open Access (OA) status are important determinants.

摘要

•The paper examines whether nationally oriented journals entering Scopus are becoming more international.•An Index of National Orientation (INO) is used, based on the geographical distribution of a journals’ publishing and citing authors.•The relationship between a journal’s national orientation and its citation impact is found to be inverse U-shaped.•About 40 per cent of journals do reveal traces of internationalization•The use of English as publication language and an Open Access (OA) status are important determinants.

论文关键词：Open access,Scopus,Journal impact factors,Journal internationality,Index of national orientation,Publication language

论文评审过程：Received 12 November 2019, Revised 9 January 2020, Accepted 14 January 2020, Available online 21 February 2020, Version of Record 21 February 2020.

论文官网地址：https://doi.org/10.1016/j.joi.2020.101011