Frontiers in Research Metrics and Analytics (Open Access)上的新发表的文章：

OPINION ARTICLE

Tom Heyman, Pieter Moors and Gert Storms (2016)

On the cost of knowledge: Evaluating the boycott against Elsevier

Front. Res. Metr. Anal. | doi: 10.3389/frma.2016.00007

http://journal.frontiersin.org/article/10.3389/frma.2016.00007/full

......It turns out that a substantial portion of the signatories was either unidentifiable (21%) or hadn’t published in any outlet, to our knowledge, since signing (19%). However, 23% of the signatories did publish in an Elsevier outlet after signing the petition . This number is somewhat higher in Chemistry (29%) compared to Psychology (17%). The remaining 37% indeed published exclusively in non-Elsevier outlets. In other words, 38% of the publishing signatories abandoned their “won’t publish in an Elsevier outlet” commitment (i.e., 23%/(23%+37%)).