Article processing charges in OA journals: relationship between price and quality

Scientometrics

Volumn 103, Issue 2, 2015, Pages 373-385

  Björk, Bo Christer ^a,b   Solomon, David ^a,b  

^a HANKEN SCHOOL OF ECONOMICS   (Finland)

^b MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Business model; Open Access; SNIP value

Indexed keywords

EID: 84936928812     PISSN: 01389130     EISSN: 15882861     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11192-015-1556-z     Document Type: Article

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