Researchers on
open practices
The growth of open access continues toaccelerate within the research community,transforming how knowledge isdisseminated and accessed worldwide. To
understand what researchers truly think
about open research, we conducted anextensive survey with over 600 authors
from 125 countries participating. Ourﬁndings demonstrate the evolving attitudes
towards open access practices.

Open access

72%

87%

72% of respondents had
published their work open accessin the past three years.

87% agree that publishing an article
open access increases the impact of
their work. That’s compared to 77%
who agreed in 2021.

Transformational agreements, institutions and funding
78% of researchers would submit their research open access if thearticle publication charge (APC) was paid by their institution or funder.
Are transformational agreements (TAs) the solution? 78% (a 3%increase compared to 2023) of researchers consider transformational
agreements the right solution to making research ﬁndings more
openly available.
68% of researchers cite lack of funds for publishing fees as an
obstacle to open access publishing. This has decreased signiﬁcantly
by 13% compared to 2023.
Each year we’re seeing a signiﬁcantly lower percentage of
TA-aﬃliated researchers indicating issues with accessing articles as aresult of the rate of article transition to fully open access.
Check if your open access fees could be covered via atransformational agreement here.

Impact of open practices

Percentage ofauthors engaging
in open practices
compared to 2023
Many open research behaviors,
including open access, open dataand open peer review, have highparticipation rates.

2023

2024

Open data

62%

80%

Open peer review

62%

61%

Open recognition

46%

71%

Open collaboration44%

66%

Self-archiving

51%

61%

Registered reports

38%

35%

Preprint servers

38%

36%

86% of researchers feel it’s important or very important to have the ﬁnal Version of Record published in apeer-reviewed journal.
‘Beneﬁts-based’ reasons are more important motivators than ‘requirements’ in driving open researchbehaviors. The most commonly cited reasons researchers choose to publish open access are the impact
and visibility it provides, for public beneﬁt, and for transparency and reuse of their work.
Motivators for those publishing open access:

61%

44%

32%

Visibility and impactPublic beneﬁt

Transparency and reuse

Supporting the transition to open research
As of July 2024, we have over 100 transformational agreements in place.
These agreements give researchers from 2,800+ institutions the opportunity to publish open
access and beneﬁt from their research being made publicly available to all.
That’s over 82,000 articles that will be open access in 2024 thanks to transformationalagreements!

Research4Life
We partner with Research4Life, making the beneﬁts of open access publishing available to authors in lowand lower-middle-income countries. The article publication charges (APCs) on publishing in our fully open
access portfolio are:Waived for
86 countries

Discounted for
41 countries

In 2023, Wiley waived theAPCs for 3,250 articles. That's
38% more than in 2022.

Our survey ﬁndings show that authors in Research4Life countries engage in open practices at about thesame rate as authors globally.

Find out more about open access here.