Japan

Japan is an island country in East Asia. Located in the Pacific Ocean off the northeast coast of the Asian mainland, it is bordered on the west by the Sea of Japan and extends from the Sea of Okhotsk in the north to the East China Sea in the south. Derived from Wikipedia licensed CC-BY-SA.

Open Access statistics for Japan, covering academic research published from 2000 to 2023. Read More.

Open Access Percentage

46%

Total
Publications

3.5M

Total Open
Publications

1.6M

Total
Citations

71M

Open Access
Percentage

46%

Total
Publications

3.5M

Total Open
Publications

1.6M

Total
Citations

71M

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Breakdown

Publisher Open

27%

Both

13%

Other Platform Open

Closed

54%

Percentage of Open Access over time

Publisher Open

Both

Other Platform Open

Closed

Volume of Open Access over time

Open

Closed

Publisher Open

OA Journal 22%

308K

Hybrid 20%

282K

No Guarantees 58%

813K

Other Platform Open

Domain 55%

366K

Institution 26%

173K

Preprint 22%

147K

Public 13%

88K

Other Internet 10%

65K

Other Platform Locations

Name	Platform Type	Publications
PubMed Central	Domain	361K
Europe PMC	Domain	194K
arXiv	Preprint	112K
Semantic Scholar	Public	77K
Research Square	Preprint	22K
CiteSeer X	Other Internet	21K
DOI	Other Internet	19K
Kyoto University - Kyoto University Research Information Repository	Institution	19K
Figshare	Public	13K
bioRxiv	Preprint	12K

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Data updated 8 December 2024