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Table 1 bibliometric features explanations and computation methods. We use MAG to produce the features in this table

From: A computational analysis of accessibility, readability, and explainability of figures in open access publications

Bibliometric feature

Computational method

Field of study

We estimate this feature for each journal by aggregating their publications’ field of study, which is predicted by Microsoft Academic Graph (MAG) with hierarchical topic modeling

The number of publications

We estimate this feature for each journal by counting unique publications in these journals from MAG

Average h-index of Authors

We estimate this feature for each journal by computing h-index of authors in MAG and then take the average of the authors in each journal

Journal Rank

The rank of a journal is computed by MAG based on the citation network of publications. The more top-ranked journals (the smaller the rank is) get more citations from the citation network

Author academic age

We estimate this feature for each journal by computing the number of years to 2022 since the authors’ year of first publications in MAG and then take the average of the authors for each journal

Journal age

The number of years to 2022 since the year of the journal’s first publication in MAG