Investigating the components of the intellectual property model of open access Iranian medical journals (Iran)

The aim of this study is to determine the status of the components of author, subject, commercialization, publisher and publications in designing the intellectual property model of open access medical journals (Iran).  

The present study is an applied-exploratory purpose and a mixed (quantitative-qualitative) study. The statistical population of the study was all open access medical journals (430 journals). The questionnaires were sent to the editors and executive directors of journals. The research tool was an organized questionnaire (content analysis and Delphi panel) which consisted of five main components (publisher, author, publisher, subject and commercialization) and 63 questions. The software used for statistical analysis was SPSS 24. Questionnaire validity (with a coefficient of 50) and reliability (with a coefficient of 0.7), exploratory factor analysis and confirmatory factor analysis were performed on the questionnaire. To design the model, the status of five components was investigated.

According to the findings, using a confirmatory factor analysis in PLS software, the questionnaire was reduced to five components, which was also confirmed by the model quality indicators. Based on the results of the Kaiser-Meyer-Ulkin index (kmo), the data of the research questionnaire can be reduced to a number of underlying and fundamental factors. These components include the five main components of publisher, author, subject, commercialization, and publications with sixty-three sub-questions, which make up the questionnaire. And since the value of KMO statistic is equal to 0.885, then the data are suitable for factor analysis.

The results show that there is a significant relationship between all components of intellectual property of free access medical journals and the components and questions have acceptable reliability and convergence. Finally, this questionnaire can be used in open access medical journals to assess intellectual property.