New report by Institute for Scientific Information on Plan S poses key questions for the research community - Seite 2

Document records in Web of Science contain 'acknowledgments', which include funding sources. These were used to identify papers sponsored by Plan S funder organisations, by cross-reference to a manually curated list of funder variants. This enabled broad capture of papers that would be affected by Plan S mandates. Some authors will have failed to identify Plan S funding and there will also be papers not included because of missing data or obscure name variants. The Plan S funded records analysed therefore represent a minimum estimate of Plan S papers published and of those indexed in the Web of Science.

Web of Science integrates data from Impactstory's Unpaywall which has one of the widest sets of data on article level OA information and is augmented by a direct journal level feed from the DOAJ.

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NOTES TO EDITORS

^[1] Plan S is an initiative from "cOAlition S": a consortium of the European Research Council and national research agencies and funders, initially in Europe but now including other funders worldwide. It will require researchers who benefit from state-funded projects and institutions to publish in open repositories or in journals where all papers are publicly accessible, for free to anyone with an internet connection.

The report can be downloaded from here: https://clarivate.com/g/plan-s-footprint/

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