Closed vs. Open Access: Szientometrische Untersuchung dreier sozialwissenschaftlicher Zeitschriften aus der Genderperspektive

Closed vs. open access: scientometric gender analysis of three social science journals. The paper is part of a larger investigation which analyses the potentials of open access publishing in order to increase the publication and therefore career opportunities for female social scientists. It compares three thematically and ethodologically similar social sciences journals: the open-access journal "Forum Qualitative Social Research" (FQS) and the two Closed-Access-/ Hybrid journals "Zeitschrift für qualitative Forschung" (ZQF) and "Sozialer Sinn" (SoSi). The data was collected on the percentage of female editorial and advisory board members of these three journals (N = 184 total). An extensive reconstruction and analysis was carried out to mark the gender structure of the authorship of the three journals 2000-2008 published articles (N = 1557 total).