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

EPJ Data Science

Table 3 Linear regression (standardized coefficients) on journals’ proportion of publications with readability issues

Term	Estimate (Standardize^∗)	std error	t value	p-value
(Intercept)	0.044	0.034	1.3	0.194
Fields:
Business	−0.489	0.160	−3.065	0.002
Chemistry	0.034	0.058	0.595	0.552
Computer science	−0.114	0.073	−1.571	0.116
Engineering	0.111	0.194	0.570	0.569
Environmental science	−0.422	0.139	−3.036	0.002
Geography	−0.372	0.124	−3.006	0.003
Geology	−0.401	0.254	−1.579	0.114
Materials science	0.043	0.085	0.498	0.618
Mathematics	−0.091	0.109	−0.831	0.406
Medicine	−0.058	0.046	−1.277	0.202
Physics	0.180	0.118	1.534	0.125
Psychology	−0.068	0.079	−0.866	0.387
Number of publications (log)	0.037	0.051	0.743	0.458
Author average h-index	0.198	0.019	10.196	<0.001
Journal rank (log)	−0.021	0.054	−0.400	0.689
Author academic age	−0.005	0.019	−0.270	0.788
Journal age	0.066	0.021	3.157	0.002