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Abstract Open access (OA) publishing provides free online access to research articles without subscription fees. In Brazil, absence of financial support from academic institutions and limited government policies pose challenges to OA publication. Here, we used data from the Web of Science and Scopus to compare with global trends in journal accessibility and scientific quality metrics. Brazilian authors publish more OA articles, particularly in Global South journals. While OA correlates with quality for global authors, it had no impact on Brazilian science. To maximize impact, Brazilian authors should prioritize Q1 journals regardless of OA status. High-impact or Global North journal publication seems more relevant for Brazilian science than OA. Our findings indicate that the present open access policy has been ineffective to improve the impact of Brazilian science, providing insights to guide the formulation of scientific public policies.

The backreaction in dye-sensitized solar cells (DSSCs) was long ago recognized as one of the main causes of decreasing energy conversion efficiency. Hence, many different approaches have been attempted to reduce the backreaction. In the present work, we use nitrogen additives in the electrolyte to reduce the backreaction with TiO2 and I3−. Intensity-modulated photocurrent/photovoltage (IMPS/IMVS) and charge extraction (CE) techniques are used to obtain information on the dynamics of charge carriers in DSSCs assembled with and without nitrogen additives. The passivation process occurring on the nanoparticles, which is promoted by the additives, prevents recombination but does not change the electron transport time. Therefore, the description of transport and electron recombination kinetics in DSSCs is well established in this work with the emerging IMPS, IMVS, and CE techniques.