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Open science indicator compliance by Spanish scientific journals

Open Access
|Nov 2025

Figures & Tables

Figure 1.

Indicators of transparency in policies on open access to and reuse of contents.
Indicators of transparency in policies on open access to and reuse of contents.

Figure 2.

Openness and reproducibility indicators.
Openness and reproducibility indicators.

Figure 3.

Percentage of journals that comply with a given number of indicators (n=254).
Percentage of journals that comply with a given number of indicators (n=254).

Figure 4.

Percentage of indicators satisfied by journals of each publisher type in the two dimensions.
Percentage of indicators satisfied by journals of each publisher type in the two dimensions.

Figure 5.

Percentage of indicators satisfied by journals in each subject area in the two dimensions.
Percentage of indicators satisfied by journals in each subject area in the two dimensions.

Dimensions, indicators, measurement and compliance criteria_

1. Transparency in policies on content access and reuse.
IndicatorMeasurementCompliance
1.1 Specify the licences under which contents are publishedPublic information about the journal (website, instructions for submitting manuscripts)
1.2 Make the intellectual property right ownership situation clear to the author(s)Public information about the journal (review of recent issues or the journal’s table of contents).This has to be explicitly stated in the information on manuscript submission, the journal’s editorial standards, the good practice guide or some other public section of the journal.
1.3 Allow the author(s) to deposit the final version accepted for publication in institutional or subject-specific repositoriesPublic information about the journal (website, instructions for submitting manuscripts)
1.4 Post the editorial policy on Sherpa RomeoDirect consultation at https://openpolicyfinder.jisc.ac.uk/Either it is at https://openpolicyfinder.jisc.ac.uk/ or it is not.
1.5 In open access journals, state whether there is an article-processing chargePublic information about the journal (website, instructions for submitting manuscripts)This recommendation has to be explicitly stated in the information on manuscript submission, the journal’s editorial standards, the good practice guide or some other public section of the journal.
1.6 In open-access journals, register in DOAJDirect consultation at https://doaj.org/Either it is at https://doaj.org/ or it is not.
2. Openness and reproducibility.
IndicatorMeasurementCompliance
2.1 Publish open access contents under a CC-BY licence or a CC-BYNC, CC-BY-SA or CC-BY-NC-SA licencePublic information about the journal (website) or in articlesThis has to be explicitly stated in the information on manuscript submission, the journal’s editorial standards, the good practice guide or some other public section of the journal, and within articles.
2.2 Encourage the author(s) to deposit supplementary materials
2.3 Associate published articles with their supplementary materials
2.4 Allow preprint sharingPublic information about the journal (website)
2.5 Allow open peer review
2.6 Have a protocol for transferring metadata to open access repositories and content aggregators
2.7 Publicly post the authorised list of reviewers

Indicator compliance percentage by journal subject area_

Subject areaTotal2.12.1%2.22.2%2.32.3%2.42.4%2.52.5%2.6*2.6*%2.72.7%
Archaeology, Anthropology and Ethnography181688.89211.1115.56527.7800.0015.56316.67
Fine Arts192896.5526.9013.45931.0300.0000.001758.62
Biomedical Sciences11981.82218.1800.00545.4500.0019.09436.36
Education Sciences343397.0638.8212.941132.3500.0012.941750.00
Natural Sciences6610000.0000.0000.0000.00116.67233.33
Legal Sciences312683.8713.2313.23825.8100.0000.001032.26
Political Sciences and Sociology313110013.2300.00619.3500.0000.001032.26
Communication, Information and Scientific Documentation2121100314.2929.52838.1000.00419.051152.38
Economics1616100318.7516.25318.7500.0016.25743.75
Philosophy151386.6716.6716.67320.0000.0016.67746.67
Geography8810000.0000.00337.5000.0000.00337.50
History413790.2437.3237.32819.5112.4437.322253.66
Engineering and Architecture151510000.0000.00320.0000.0000.00640.00
Linguistics322990.6326.2500.00825.0000.0000.001340.63
Literature343397.0638.8200.00823.5300.0000.001544.12
Psychology121191.6718.3300.00541.6700.0000.00433.33
Total35433293.79277.63113.119326.2710.28133.6715142.66

Indicator compliance percentage by journal publisher type_

Institution typeTotal2.1*2.1*%2.22.2%2.32.3%2.42.4%2.52.5%2.6*2.6*%2.72.7%
Institutional21020095.2452.3883.815325.2410.4873.339344.29
Government agency161487.50212.5016.25212.5000.0016.25743.75
Research centre131292.31323.08323.08538.4600.0017.69430.77
National Research Council2210000.0000.0000.0000.0000.0000.00
University17917296.0900.0042.234625.7010.5652.798245.81
Society/association, professional society333090.911339.3900.00927.2700.0000.00927.27
Association212095.24314.2900.00733.3300.0000.00628.57
Professional society2150.0000.0000.00150.0000.0000.0000.00
Foundation5510000.0000.00120.0000.0000.00360.00
Scientific society5480.00100.0000.0000.0000.0000.0000.00
Commercial publisher11872.7319.0900.00327.2700.00218.18654.55
Total25423893.70197.4883.156525.5910.3993.5410842.52
DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/jdis-2025-0042 | Journal eISSN: 2543-683X | Journal ISSN: 2096-157X
Language: English
Page range: 219 - 242
Submitted on: Mar 3, 2025
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Accepted on: Jul 9, 2025
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Published on: Nov 20, 2025
In partnership with: Paradigm Publishing Services

© 2025 María Ángeles Coslado, Daniela De Filippo, Elías Sanz-Casado, published by Chinese Academy of Sciences, National Science Library
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