Japan

Japan is an island country in East Asia. It is in the northwest Pacific Ocean and is bordered on the west by the Sea of Japan, extending from the Sea of Okhotsk in the north toward the East China Sea, Philippine Sea, and Taiwan 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

45%

Total
Publications

3.3M

Total Open
Publications

1.5M

Total
Citations

59M

Open Access
Percentage

45%

Total
Publications

3.3M

Total Open
Publications

1.5M

Total
Citations

59M

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Breakdown

Publisher Open

25%

Both

13%

Other Platform Open

Closed

56%

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 24%

297K

Hybrid 18%

223K

No Guarantees 58%

724K

Other Platform Open

Domain 56%

346K

Institution 28%

173K

Preprint 23%

145K

Public 12%

75K

Other Internet 9%

57K

Other Platform Locations

Name	Platform Type	Publications
PubMed Central	Domain	341K
Europe PMC	Domain	214K
arXiv	Preprint	100K
Semantic Scholar	Public	65K
Research Square	Preprint	25K
CiteSeer X	Other Internet	21K
Kyoto University - Kyoto University Research Information Repository	Institution	21K
DOI	Other Internet	16K
Hokkaido University - Hokkaido University Collection of Scholarly and Academic Papers	Institution	14K
Figshare	Public	13K

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Data updated 14 March 2024