Open access adoption, quartile mobility, and publisher growth among Scopus-indexed journals in the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) and East Asia, 2015–2024: a bibliometric study

Purpose: This study compared the growth, distribution, and publisher profiles of Scopus-in-dexed journals in the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) and East Asia between 2015 and 2024, with the aim of contrasting regional publishing patterns. Methods: Journal data from the SCImago Journal Rank (SJR) were analyzed for five ASEAN countries (Indonesia, Malaysia, Philippines, Singapore, and Thailand) and five East Asian countries (China, Hong Kong, Japan, Korea