Thieme: Hybrid Journals in Transformative Agreements

How open are Thieme’s hybrid journals included in transformative agreements, as listed by the cOAlition S Journal Checker Tool? You can analyse progress made over time by open license, publisher and country. You can also monitor the availability of publisher-provided metadata in Crossref.

The share of Open Access articles with a Creative Commons license in 82 hybrid journals is as follows:

2017-2024

Global Germany*
2.1% 5.8%
2K out of 97K 895 out of 16K

2023

Global Germany*
3.7% 9.8%
418 out of 11K 154 out of 2K

*Journal articles from lead authors based in Germany. Country affiliation data derived from OpenAlex.

Creative Commons licenses over time

Percentage of Open Access in Thieme hybrid journals included in transformative agreements by Creative Commons license types as provided by Crossref.

0% 1% 2% 3% 4% 2017 2018 2019 2020 2021 2022 2023 2024 CC BY-NC-ND CC BY-ND CC BY-NC-SA CC BY-NC CC BY-SA CC BY
0% 3% 6% 9% 12% 2017 2018 2019 2020 2021 2022 2023 2024 CC BY-NC-ND CC BY-ND CC BY-NC-SA CC BY-NC CC BY-SA CC BY

*Journal articles from lead authors based in Germany. Country affiliation data derived from OpenAlex.

Publishing market

Hybrid journal portfolio analysis, showing publishing market shares in terms of total and Open Access article volume. Dashed lines represent median OA percentage (red) and median publication output (orange). Note that only hybrid journals included in transformative agreements are shown.

100 1,000 10,000 100,0001,000,0000%25%50%75%100%
Publication year: 201720172018201920202021202220232024Articles (log scale)OAPlay
100 1,00010,0000%25%50%75%100%
Publication year: 201720172018201920202021202220232024Articles (log scale)OAPlay

*Journal articles from lead authors based in Germany. Country affiliation data derived from OpenAlex.

Country view

This section shows how hybrid open access has been adopted in different parts of the world. The analysis is based on the country affiliation of lead authors. Lead authors are the first named authors of scholarly articles, who have typically conducted most of the research presented in the article, although the role of lead authors can vary across disciplines. We used OpenAlex as a data source to determine the affiliation of lead authors.

Open Access in hybrid journals by country

Open Access uptake in hybrid journals with a Creative Commons license per country. Showing the Top 20 most productive countries in terms of articles published in Thieme hybrid journals included in transformative agreements between 2017 and 2024. The analysis is based on lead author country affiliations.

Brazil 636 | 1.3 % Australia 622 | 1.3 % South Korea 555 | 1.2 % Iran 454 | 0.9 % Belgium 335 | 0.7 % Poland 323 | 0.7 % Other 4.7K | 9.9 % United Kingdom 1.3K | 2.7 % France 996 | 2.1 % Turkey 905 | 1.9 % Austria 898 | 1.9 % Spain 766 | 1.6 % Netherlands 732 | 1.5 % Canada 717 | 1.5 % Germany 15.6K | 32.4 % United States 9.1K | 19.1 % China 3.5K | 7.2 % Japan 1.8K | 3.8 % Switzerland 1.4K | 2.8 % Italy 1.4K | 2.8 % India 1.3K | 2.7 % 0% 20% 40% 0% 20% 40% 0% 20% 40% 2017 - 2024 OA Share Country Total Lead Author Articles | Country Share

Country league

Publication volume and Open Access share per country in Thieme hybrid journals included in transformative agreements. You can search for specific countries, and filter by publisher and publication year. The analysis is based on country-affiliations of lead authors.

2023
Country
OA with CC
Total Article Volume
% OA
Germany
154
1,578
9.8%
China
52
464
11.2%
United States
44
954
4.6%
Netherlands
35
83
42.2%
Switzerland
20
186
10.8%
United Kingdom
12
138
8.7%
Austria
12
105
11.4%
Japan
10
181
5.5%
Sweden
8
20
40.0%
South Korea
6
88
6.8%
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Open metadata

Open and comprehensive metadata is a key requirement of many transformative agreements. The following tables illustrate potential gaps in Crossref metadata for Open Access articles in hybrid journals included in transformative agreements.

License metadata gaps

Thieme: Comparison of open licence metadata in Crossref with Unpaywall via OpenAlex per year. You can compare global metrics with metrics only for articles by lead authors based in Germany. In addition to Crossref licence information, Unpaywall also analyses publisher websites to determine whether an article has been published under an open content licence. More Open Access articles derived from Crossref may indicate a delay between metadata changes and Unpaywall-indexing, while more Open Access articles identified by Unpaywall suggest that publishers have not deposited licensing metadata in Crossref for all articles.

0% 1% 2% 3% 4% 5% 2017 2018 2019 2020 2021 2022 2023 2024 Data source Crossref Unpaywall
0% 2% 5% 8% 10% 12% 2017 2018 2019 2020 2021 2022 2023 2024 Data source Crossref Unpaywall

*Journal articles from lead authors based in Germany. Country affiliation data derived from OpenAlex.

Crossref metadata coverage

This table shows the proportion of Crossref metadata that is publicly available for Open Access articles in hybrid journals included in transformative agreements. Publishers can use Crossref to share information about Text and Data Mining (TDM), authors (ORCID) and funding. They can also open up abstracts and reference lists through Crossref.

Global
Publisher
Metadata
2017
2018
2019
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
Thieme
TDM Support
0%
0%
0%
0%
0%
0%
0%
0%
ORCID
6%
0%
5%
20%
37%
44%
47%
54%
Funder info
17%
0%
7%
23%
34%
28%
27%
31%
Open Abstracts
96%
89%
96%
93%
94%
92%
89%
89%
Open Citations
14%
2%
5%
68%
97%
95%
95%
92%

Journal table

Thieme: This table presents the publication volume and Open Access share by hybrid journal between 2017 and 2024, comparing global metrics with metrics only for articles by lead authors based in Germany. Charts show the yearly Open Access share. You can search for journals or select a table header to sort by journal name or a metric.

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Global Publication Volume
German Lead Authors
Journal
Articles
% OA
Trend
Articles
% OA
Trend
AINS - Anästhesiologie · Intensivmedizin · Notfallmedizin · Schmerztherapie
ISSN-L: 0939-2661
1,006
0.0%
6
0.0%
Aktuelle Dermatologie
ISSN-L: 0340-2541
1,160
0.0%
401
0.0%
Aktuelle Ernährungsmedizin
ISSN-L: 0341-0501
1,163
0.3%
116
1.7%
Aktuelle Rheumatologie
ISSN-L: 0341-051X
1,258
0.3%
218
0.5%
Aktuelle Urologie
ISSN-L: 0001-7868
1,010
0.1%
420
0.2%
Allgemeine Homöopathische Zeitung
ISSN-L: 1438-2563
618
0.0%
22
0.0%
American Journal of Perinatology
ISSN-L: 0735-1631
1,987
2.4%
3
0.0%
Balint Journal
ISSN-L: 1439-5142
258
0.8%
21
9.5%
Clinics in Colon and Rectal Surgery
ISSN-L: 1530-9681
584
0.3%
0
0.0%
Das Gesundheitswesen
ISSN-L: 0941-3790
1,513
7.9%
979
11.4%
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Dashboard last compiled on 13 January, 2025.