# On the share of mathematics published by Elsevier and Springer

## TL;DR

This paper analyzes the increasing share of highly-cited mathematics articles published by Elsevier and Springer from 2000 to 2017, highlighting their growing dominance in influential journals.

## Contribution

It provides empirical data on the rising publication share of Elsevier and Springer in top-cited mathematics journals over 17 years.

## Key findings

- Share of articles by Elsevier and Springer increased from one-third to nearly half.
- The trend indicates growing dominance of these publishers in influential mathematics journals.
- Data covers the top 100 most-cited mathematics journals from 2000 to 2017.

## Abstract

For-profit editors such as Elsevier and Springer have been subject to sustained criticism from academics and university libraries, including calls to boycott, and discontinued subscriptions. Mathematicians have played a particularly active role in this critique, and have endeavored to imagine new publication practices and create new journals. This motivates the monitoring of the share of articles published by different editors. I used data from MathSciNet over the period 2000-2017, and focused on the 100 journals with highest citations per article. Within this category, the share of articles published by Elsevier and Springer has steadily increased over this period, from about a third to almost half of the total.