Are nationally oriented journals indexed in Scopus becoming more international? The effect of publication language and access modality

An exploratory-descriptive analysis is presented of the national orientation of scientific-scholarly journals as reflected in the affiliations of publishing or citing authors. It calculates for journals covered in Scopus an Index of National Orientation (INO), and analyses the distribution of INO values across disciplines and countries, and the correlation between INO values and journal impact factors. The study did not find solid evidence that...