Turki Houcemeddine, Fraumann Grischa, Hadj Taieb Mohamed Ali, Ben Aouicha Mohamed
Data Engineering and Semantics Research Unit, Faculty of Sciences of Sfax, University of Sfax, Sfax, Tunisia.
R&D Department, TIB - Leibniz Information Centre for Science and Technology, Hannover, Germany.
Front Res Metr Anal. 2023 Aug 17;8:1207980. doi: 10.3389/frma.2023.1207980. eCollection 2023.
This brief research report analyzes the availability of Digital Object Identifiers (DOIs) worldwide, highlighting the dominance of large publishing houses and the need for unique persistent identifiers to increase the visibility of publications from developing countries. The study reveals that a considerable amount of publications from developing countries are excluded from the global flow of scientific information due to the absence of DOIs, emphasizing the need for alternative publishing models. The authors suggest that the availability of DOIs should receive more attention in scholarly communication and scientometrics, contributing to a necessary debate on DOIs relevant for librarians, publishers, and scientometricians.
这份简短的研究报告分析了全球数字对象标识符（DOI）的可用性，强调了大型出版社的主导地位以及为提高发展中国家出版物的可见性而对唯一持久标识符的需求。该研究表明，由于缺乏DOI，大量来自发展中国家的出版物被排除在全球科学信息流动之外，这凸显了对替代出版模式的需求。作者建议，DOI的可用性在学术交流和科学计量学中应得到更多关注，这有助于引发一场与图书馆员、出版商和科学计量学家相关的关于DOI的必要辩论。
