Gauging scholars’ acceptance of Open Access journals by examining the relationship between perceived quality and citation impact

Regression results: Predicting CABS using sqrt(5IF) and OA—all CABS journals_ R2=0_30, SEE=0_88, n=1,301_

Variable	b	SE	Beta	Sig.
Sqrt(5IF)	0.770	0.034	0.53	< 0.01
OA	-0.432	0.119	-0.09	< 0.01
Y-intercept	0.735	0.069	—	< 0.01

Regression results: Predicting CABS using log10(AI) and OA—all CABS journals_ R2=0_53, SEE=0_73, n=1,301_

Variable	b	SE	Beta	Sig.
log10(AI)	1.865	0.050	0.72	< 0.01
OA	-0.219	0.098	-0.04	< 0.01
Y-intercept	2.344	0.021	—	0.03

Regression results: Predicting CABS using sqrt(5IF) and OA—CABS business journals_ R2=0_31, SEE=0_83, n=288_

Variable	b	SE	Beta	Sig.
Sqrt(5IF)	0.856	0.079	0.53	< 0.01
OA	-0.434	0.186	-0.12	0.02
Y-intercept	0.838	0.135	—	< 0.01

Regression results: Predicting CABS using sqrt(CiteScore) and OA—CABS business journals_ R2=0_26, SEE=0_90, n=1,072_

Variable	b	SE	Beta	Sig.
Sqrt(CiteScore)	0.581	0.031	0.49	< 0.01
OA	-0.402	0.133	-0.08	0.01
Y-intercept	0.717	0.076	—	< 0.01

Regression results: Predicting CABS using sqrt(SJR) and OA—CABS business journals_ R2=0_56, SEE=0_67, n=303_

Variable	b	SE	Beta	Sig.
Sqrt(SJR)	1.016	0.054	0.73	< 0.01
OA	-0.367	0.141	-0.10	0.01
Y-intercept	1.030	0.071	—	< 0.01

Regression results: Predicting CABS using log10(AI) and OA—CABS business journals_ R2=0_51, SEE=0_74, n=876_

Variable	b	SE	Beta	Sig.
log10(AI)	1.955	0.066	0.71	< 0.01
OA	-0.158	0.138	-0.03	0.25
Y-intercept	2.394	0.027	—	0.01

Regression results: Predicting CABS using sqrt(5IF) and OA—CABS business journals_ R2=0_31, SEE=0_88, n=876_

Variable	b	SE	Beta	Sig.
Sqrt(5IF)	0.805	0.042	0.55	< 0.01
OA	-0.418	0.163	-0.07	0.01
Y-intercept	0.576	0.087	—	< 0.01

Regression results: Predicting CABS using log10(AI) and OA—CABS business journals_ R2=0_63, SEE=0_61, n=288_

Variable	b	SE	Beta	Sig.
log10(AI)	1.705	0.079	0.79	< 0.01
OA	-0.181	0.136	-0.05	0.19
Y-intercept	2.290	0.038	—	< 0.01

Regression results: Predicting CABS using sqrt (CiteScore) and OA—CABS business journals_ R2=0_22, SEE=0_89, n=303_

Variable	b	SE	Beta	Sig.
Sqrt(CiteScore)	0.627	0.073	0.44	< 0.01
OA	-0.446	0.187	-0.12	0.02
Y-intercept	0.939	0.149	—	< 0.01

Descriptives for the CABS business journals—excluding the journals in the CABS economics, econometrics and statistics; psychology (general); and social sciences categories_

Variable	Non-OA Mean	Non-OA SD	Non-OA N	OA Mean	OA SD	OA N
OA	0.00	0.00	1,051	1.00	0.00	52
CABS	2.00	1.04	1,051	1.25	0.48	52
5IF	4.34	3.31	845	2.44	2.38	31
CiteScore	5.79	4.61	1,023	2.94	2.48	49
AI	1.12	1.27	845	0.43	0.34	31
SJR	1.24	1.54	1,027	0.47	0.41	46

Regression results: Predicting CABS using sqrt(CiteScore) and OA—all CABS journals_ R2=0_24, SEE=0_90, n=1,513_

Variable	b	SE	Beta	Sig.
Sqrt(CiteScore)	0.577	0.028	0.47	< 0.01
OA	-0.410	0.105	-0.09	< 0.01
Y-intercept	0.807	0.065	—	< 0.01

Regression results: Predicting CABS using sqrt(SJR) and OA—all CABS journals_ R2=0_52, SEE=0_72, n=1,514_

Variable	b	SE	Beta	Sig.
Sqrt(SJR)	1.362	0.035	0.71	< 0.01
OA	-0.294	0.085	-0.06	< 0.01
Y-intercept	0.671	0.040	—	< 0.01

Regression results: Predicting CABS using sqrt(SJR) and OA—CABS business journals_ R2=0_54, SEE=0_71, n=1,073_

Variable	b	SE	Beta	Sig.
Sqrt(SJR)	1.536	0.045	0.73	< 0.01
OA	-0.214	0.108	-0.04	0.05
Y-intercept	0.485	0.050	—	< 0.01

Descriptives for all CABS journals—the journals in all 22 CABS subject categories_

Variable	Non-OA Mean	Non-OA SD	Non-OA N	OA Mean	OA SD	OA N
OA	0.00	0.00	1,476	1.00	0.00	85
CABS	2.06	1.04	1,476	1.32	0.69	85
5IF	4.01	3.33	1,242	2.45	2.76	59
CiteScore	5.50	4.52	1,433	2.96	2.57	80
AI	1.30	1.84	1,242	0.75	1.71	59
SJR	1.34	2.03	1,437	0.63	1.06	77

Descriptives for the CABS economics journals—those in the CABS economics, econometrics and statistics category_

Variable	Non-OA Mean	Non-OA SD	Non-OA N	OA Mean	OA SD	OA N
OA	0.00	0.00	287	1.00	0.00	26
CABS	2.11	0.98	287	1.46	0.99	26
5IF	2.87	2.53	266	2.19	3.17	22
CiteScore	4.10	3.35	278	2.86	2.94	25
AI	1.68	2.94	266	1.16	2.74	22
SJR	1.71	3.40	278	0.94	1.75	25