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. 2021 May 26;9:e11417. doi: 10.7717/peerj.11417

Table 11. Comparison of funded articles by country.

This table shows the breakdown of access type to publications listed as funded by government funding agencies in New Zealand, the United States, Australia and the United Kingdom, showing the proportion of publications for each that are closed or open by the different methods of doing so. The table is broken into three: it shows the results for all authors and then splits these overall figures into two subsets, where the corresponding author was a researcher affiliated with a New Zealand university and where not.

Funder No. Closed Bronze Gold Diam’d Hybrid Green
All Authors
NZ Govt 1,519 55% 9% 19% 1% 5% 11%
US Govt 271 24% 18% 20% 2% 14% 22%
Aust Govt 358 39% 11% 23% 1% 6% 20%
UK Govt 199 12% 17% 27% 1% 20% 24%
NZ Corresponding Authors
NZ Govt 1,098 56% 10% 19% 1% 4% 10%
US Govt 52 33% 12% 17% 4% 13% 21%
Aust Govt 68 46% 10% 22% 0% 4% 18%
UK Govt 33 33% 15% 15% 3% 12% 21%
Non-NZ Corresponding Authors
NZ Govt 421 51% 8% 18% 1% 8% 15%
US Govt 219 22% 20% 20% 2% 15% 22%
Aust Govt 290 37% 11% 23% 1% 7% 21%
UK Govt 166 8% 17% 29% 0% 22% 25%