Mikael Laakso

3.5k total citations · 1 hit paper
53 papers, 2.1k citations indexed

About

Mikael Laakso is a scholar working on Statistics, Probability and Uncertainty, Information Systems and Management and Information Systems. According to data from OpenAlex, Mikael Laakso has authored 53 papers receiving a total of 2.1k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 30 papers in Statistics, Probability and Uncertainty, 22 papers in Information Systems and Management and 16 papers in Information Systems. Recurrent topics in Mikael Laakso's work include scientometrics and bibliometrics research (30 papers), Academic Publishing and Open Access (19 papers) and Research Data Management Practices (14 papers). Mikael Laakso is often cited by papers focused on scientometrics and bibliometrics research (30 papers), Academic Publishing and Open Access (19 papers) and Research Data Management Practices (14 papers). Mikael Laakso collaborates with scholars based in Finland, Germany and United States. Mikael Laakso's co-authors include Bo‐Christer Björk, Turid Hedlund, Linus Nyman, Helena Bukvova, Arto Kiviniemi, Péter Majlender, David Solomon, Najko Jahn, Lisa Matthias and Juho Lindman and has published in prestigious journals such as SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología, PLoS ONE and Automation in Construction.

In The Last Decade

Mikael Laakso

46 papers receiving 1.9k citations

Hit Papers

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  1. The Development of Open Access Journal Publishing from 1993 to 2009
    2011 432 citations Mikael Laakso, Linus Nyman et al. PLoS ONE profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

Peers by citation overlap · career bar shows stage (early→late) cites · hero ref

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Mikael Laakso Finland 20 1.2k 706 632 199 160 53 2.1k
Martijn S. Visser Netherlands 18 1.4k 1.2× 230 0.3× 464 0.7× 62 0.3× 50 0.3× 32 2.5k
Andrew Plume Netherlands 8 466 0.4× 184 0.3× 214 0.3× 43 0.2× 63 0.4× 16 1.5k
Éric Archambault Canada 16 1.1k 0.9× 280 0.4× 393 0.6× 30 0.2× 76 0.5× 26 2.3k
Zaida Chinchilla‐Rodríguez Spain 25 855 0.7× 190 0.3× 329 0.5× 16 0.1× 116 0.7× 119 1.9k
Vicente P. Guerrero‐Bote Spain 24 968 0.8× 159 0.2× 497 0.8× 20 0.1× 111 0.7× 80 2.3k
Grégoire Côté Canada 6 391 0.3× 120 0.2× 183 0.3× 46 0.2× 56 0.3× 8 1.5k
Kayvan Kousha United Kingdom 30 1.5k 1.3× 434 0.6× 1.2k 1.9× 12 0.1× 166 1.0× 85 3.0k
Antonio Perianes‐Rodríguez Spain 14 324 0.3× 94 0.1× 183 0.3× 63 0.3× 59 0.4× 45 1.5k
Yi Bu China 25 711 0.6× 190 0.3× 250 0.4× 13 0.1× 68 0.4× 117 1.8k
Jesper Wiborg Schneider Denmark 21 589 0.5× 126 0.2× 209 0.3× 29 0.1× 46 0.3× 71 1.9k

Countries citing papers authored by Mikael Laakso

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Fields of papers citing papers by Mikael Laakso

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Mikael Laakso

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Mikael Laakso. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Mikael Laakso based on the total number of citations received by their joint publications. Widths of edges represent the number of papers authors have co-authored together. Node borders signify the number of papers an author published with Mikael Laakso. Mikael Laakso is excluded from the visualization to improve readability, since they are connected to all nodes in the network.

All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Taşkın, Zehra, Janne Pölönen, Emanuel Kulczycki, & Mikael Laakso. (2025). Mapping the publisher types and collaborations behind Web of Science indexed journals. Quantitative Science Studies. 6. 940–966.
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Laakso, Mikael, et al.. (2023). Open access and international coauthorship: A longitudinal study of the United Arab Emirates research output. Quantitative Science Studies. 4(2). 372–393. 2 indexed citations
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Laakso, Mikael, et al.. (2023). European scholarly journals from small- and mid-size publishers: mapping journals and public funding mechanisms. Science and Public Policy. 50(3). 445–456. 9 indexed citations
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Laakso, Mikael. (2023). Open access books through open data sources: assessing prevalence, providers, and preservation. Journal of Documentation. 79(7). 157–177. 5 indexed citations
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Laakso, Mikael & Bo‐Christer Björk. (2021). Open access journal publishing in the business disciplines: A closer look at the low uptake and discipline-specific considerations. Journal of Librarianship and Information Science. 54(2). 216–229. 7 indexed citations
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Laakso, Mikael, Lisa Matthias, & Najko Jahn. (2021). Open is not forever: A study of vanished open access journals. Refubium (Universitätsbibliothek der Freien Universität Berlin). 50 indexed citations
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Guédon, Jean‐Claude, Michael Jubb, Bianca Kramer, et al.. (2019). Future of scholarly publishing and scholarly communication report of the expert group to the European Commission. Työväentutkimus Vuosikirja. 37 indexed citations
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Pölönen, Janne, Raf Guns, Emanuel Kulczycki, Mikael Laakso, & Gunnar Sivertsen. (2019). Open access challenge at national level: comprehensive analysis of publication channels used by Finnish researchers in 2016-2017. Työväentutkimus Vuosikirja. 1776–1787. 2 indexed citations
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Laakso, Mikael. (2018). Teemanumero: Avoin tiede ja avoin tieto. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 37(4).
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Laakso, Mikael, et al.. (2017). Balancing ideology and feasibility: A case study on adopting and evaluating open access publishing models for a society journal within philosophy. Åbo Akademi University Research Portal. 22(4). 2 indexed citations
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Melero, Remedios, et al.. (2017). Openness of Spanish scholarly journals as measured by access and rights. Learned Publishing. 30(2). 143–155. 6 indexed citations
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Laakso, Mikael & Bo‐Christer Björk. (2016). Hybrid open access—A longitudinal study. Journal of Informetrics. 10(4). 919–932. 76 indexed citations
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Nyman, Linus & Mikael Laakso. (2016). Notes on the History of Fork and Join. IEEE Annals of the History of Computing. 38(3). 84–87. 14 indexed citations
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Solomon, David, Mikael Laakso, & Bo‐Christer Björk. (2016). Converting Scholarly Journals to Open Access: A Review of Approaches and Experiences. Digital Access to Scholarship at Harvard (DASH) (Harvard University). 22 indexed citations
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Laakso, Mikael. (2014). The past, present & future of Open Access. 10(1). 1 indexed citations
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Laakso, Mikael & Bo‐Christer Björk. (2013). Delayed open access: An overlooked high‐impact category of openly available scientific literature. Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology. 64(7). 1323–1329. 69 indexed citations
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Laakso, Mikael & Arto Kiviniemi. (2012). THE IFC STANDARD - A REVIEW OF HISTORY, DEVELOPMENT, AND STANDARDIZATION. Journal of Information Technology in Construction. 17(9). 134–161. 118 indexed citations
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Björk, Bo‐Christer, et al.. (2011). OPEN ACCESSIBILITY TO INFORMATION SYSTEMS RESEARCH ARTICLES. European Conference on Information Systems. 149. 3 indexed citations
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Björk, Bo‐Christer, et al.. (2010). Open Access to the Scientific Journal Literature: Situation 2009. PLoS ONE. 5(6). e11273–e11273. 318 indexed citations
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Björk, Bo‐Christer & Mikael Laakso. (2009). CAD standardisation in the construction industry — A process view. Automation in Construction. 19(4). 398–406. 27 indexed citations

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