Publications in Open Access Journals: A Bibliometric Analysis

The results of scientific activities and consequently their dissemination, mainly through scientific articles, make it possible to publish the techniques and indicators used, as well as the results obtained during development, to various interested parties in the investigated themes. Therefore, identifying how the results of scientific research are being published allows us to understand how scientific communication has been used to disseminate the studies carried out. In this context, the publication of articles in open access journals emerges as an interesting mechanism for the dissemination of scientific research, as it facilitates and enables access to them, since there are no barriers, especially financial ones, for access to content. of this type of publication. Therefore, this study aims to analyze, with the help of different indicators, the entire set of publications in open access journals, registered in the Lattes Platform curricula. In view of the extraction and treatment of curricular data, and with the validation with data extracted from the DOAJ, it was possible to verify the impact of the scientific journals in which the articles are being published, as well as the average of citations of the publications over the years and considering the different areas of knowledge.