Open Access Library Journal 2023, Volume 10, e10426 ISSN Online: 2333-9721 ISSN Print: 2333-9705 DOI: 10.4236/oalib.1110426 Jul. 26, 2023 1 Open Access Library Journal Comparative Study of Open Access and Non-Open Access Journals in Subject Area Energy Debrayan Bravo Hidalgo, Marco Vinicio Cevallos Bravo, William Marcelo Ponce Iturralde Administrative Sciences Department, Central University of Ecuador, Quito, Ecuador Abstract The purpose of this research is to establish a comparative analysis between open access journals and those open access journals whose sole purpose is to research on energy as a socialized conduit. To achieve such objective three tools will be used, namely: 1) the bibliographic database of abstracts, 2) the ci- tations of articles for scientific journals, including Scopus, and 3) bibliometric analysis. Different studies show research that has been published in non-open access journals is larger in content than those published in open access jour- nals. Non-open access journals establish a trend indicating better SNIP and SJR scores in comparison to their open access journal counterparts. Such trends are considered very atypical, and they certainly cannot be pre-determined in other areas of knowledge which would include: medicine, agronomy, bio- chemistry, mathematics, and planetary sciences. So far, the United Kingdom has been the leading-edge country which has provided more funding for both non-open access journals and open access journals in terms of energy re- search. Subject Areas Information Science Keywords Energy, Journals, Citation, Bibliometrics, Open Access, Comparative, Indices 1. Introduction Science operates on the border between the known and the ignored. Scientific practice is defined by an essential set of rules: 1) test ideas through experimenta- tion and observation. 2) Lean on the ideas that passed the tests and reject those How to cite this paper: Hidalgo, D.B., Bravo, M.V.C. and Iturralde, W.M.P. (2023) Comparative Study of Open Access and Non-Open Access Journals in Subject Area Energy. Open Access Library Journal, 10: e10426. https://doi.org/10.4236/oalib.1110426 Received: June 26, 2023 Accepted: July 23, 2023 Published: July 26, 2023 Copyright © 2023 by author(s) and Open Access Library Inc. This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution International License (CC BY 4.0). http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ Open Access