Learned societies as publishers in the international journal landscape

The study aims to address the place of learned society journals in the international scholarly communication landscape. To achieve this aim, we classified journals listed in the Master Journal List of Web of Science considering commercial, learned society, and university publishers based on publisher and owner data from the International ISSN Center. It helped us find collaborative journals published by two or more publisher types. The results show that publisher types differ significantly according to publication languages, regions, citation indexing, subject categories, and citation potential. These results shed light on important differences among Web of Science indexed journals and help to understand the role and collaboration of different types of publishers that shape the international publishing industry.