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

EPJ Data Science

Table 4 Linear regression (standardized coefficients) on journals’ proportion of publications with explainability issues

Term	Estimate (Standardize^∗)	std error	t value	p-value
(Intercept)	−0.055	0.041	−1.329	0.184
Fields
Business	0.243	0.175	1.391	0.164
Chemistry	−0.003	0.065	−0.052	0.959
Computer science	0.103	0.084	1.234	0.217
Engineering	−0.054	0.214	−0.251	0.802
Environmental science	0.249	0.147	1.686	0.092
Geography	0.123	0.136	0.905	0.365
Geology	0.463	0.281	1.65	0.099
Materials science	0.104	0.094	1.102	0.27
Mathematics	−0.001	0.118	−0.004	0.997
Medicine	0.069	0.058	1.185	0.236
Physics	0.027	0.122	0.22	0.826
Psychology	0.145	0.091	1.597	0.11
Number of publications (log)	−0.092	0.055	−1.67	0.095
Average author h-index	−0.201	0.023	−8.77	<0.001
Journal rank (log)	0.096	0.058	1.649	0.099
Author academic age	0.001	0.022	0.026	0.979
Journal age	−0.023	0.024	−0.958	0.338