65 of the top 100 most cited papers in the world are chargeable and not "accessible by anyone"

byShawn Campbell

The Internet was originally created to connect university computers to each other on a network to share the paper, but contrary to this primary goal, most of the top 100 citations articles are not open access Has been pointed out.

65 out of the 100 most cited papers are paywalled.
https://www.authorea.com/users/8850/articles/125400-65-out-of-the-100-most-cited-papers-are-paywalled


I pointed out that a writing tool for researchers "Authorea"Co-founder Alberto Pepe and chief scientist Josh Nicholson.

Although the price varies depending on the paper, the weighted average result was $ 32.33 (about 3620 yen). If we think that paid articles were purchased separately, the total amount so far was 54,242,252 dollars (about 6.1 billion yen). Converted with Bugatti Veyron known as a luxury car, it is about 23 cars, all the citizens of New York can buy a hot dog at the subway.

On the other hand, the number of citations published for open access is 1088779 cases. If it had been published for a fee, the cost was 35,191,9108 dollars (about 3.9 billion yen), and it seems that this is 14 Bugatti Veyron here, all the citizens of New York could buy coffee and chocolate chip cookie in Starbucks.

By the way, the first most cited paper "open access" Protein measurement with the folin phenol reagent. (Folin phenol reagent"Protein measurement by bacterium phage T4" (protein structure measurement by bacteriophage T4) "in the second place is paid" 3005 cases. Taking an average, open access papers were quoted more than paid articles.