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Record W4415747150 · doi:10.1177/02666669251389935

Involvement of China and its close partners in the international open access movement: Quantitative analysis and benchmarking approach

2025· article· en· W4415747150 on OpenAlex

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Bibliographic record

VenueInformation Development · 2025
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldDecision Sciences
Topicscientometrics and bibliometrics research
Canadian institutionsnot available
Fundersnot available
KeywordsBenchmarkingRanking (information retrieval)Index (typography)ChinaQuantitative analysis (chemistry)Quarter (Canadian coin)Evaluation methods

Abstract

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A quantitative assessment of China and its close partners’ involvement in the Open Access movement was conducted using a specially developed index ranging from zero to one. The index is based on three groups of indicators with different weights: Open Access repositories and journals (highest weight), Open Access policies (average weight), and signatories to Open Access initiatives (lowest weight). China's closest partners include 10 ASEAN countries, Russia, and 5 post-Soviet Central Asian countries. The results identify three groups of countries. Indonesia leads with a significant gap ahead of Russia and China, whose index values range between 0.3 and 0.5. The third group of 14 countries trails far behind with index values between 0.0 and 0.08. A correlation-regression analysis was performed to rank the countries according to the index under study, which revealed the stability of this ranking in its upper layer. An explanation for this phenomenon can be found in the Matthew effect and Cumulative Advantage Distribution. Regular index calculations combined with benchmarking methodology are suggested to link target index values to Open Access best practices. The conclusion will propose measures to increase the participation of less developed countries in ASEAN and Central Asia in the OA movement.

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Full frame distilled prediction

Teacher imitation

Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.014
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.002
Version: codex-gemma-dda1882f352aValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesBibliometrics, Scholarly communication
Consensus categoriesBibliometrics
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Observational · Consensus signal: Observational
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: Empirical
Teacher disagreement score0.280
Threshold uncertainty score0.997

Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0140.002
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.000
Bibliometrics0.0250.053
Science and technology studies0.0000.000
Scholarly communication0.0040.003
Open science0.0020.002
Research integrity0.0000.000
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0000.000

Machine scores (provisional)

The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.

Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.

Opus teacher head0.481
GPT teacher head0.579
Teacher spread0.099 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it