The data in this set was culled from the Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ), the Proquest database Library and Information Science Abstracts (LISA), and a sample of peer reviewed scholarly journals in the field of Library Science. The data include journals that are open access, which was first defined by the Budapest Open Access Initiative: By ‘open access’ to [scholarly] literature, we mean its free availability on the public internet, permitting any users to read, download, copy, distribute, print, search, or link to the full texts of these articles, crawl them for indexing, pass them as data to software, or use them for any other lawful purpose, without financial, legal, or technical barriers other than those inseparable from gaining access to the internet itself. Starting with a batch of 377 journals, we focused our dataset to include journals that met the following criteria: 1) peer-reviewed 2) written in English or abstracted in English, 3) actively published at the time of..., Data Collection In the spring of 2023, researchers gathered 377 scholarly journals whose content covered the work of librarians, archivists, and affiliated information professionals. This data encompassed 221 journals from the Proquest database Library and Information Science Abstracts (LISA), widely regarded as an authoritative database in the field of librarianship. From the Directory of Open Access Journals, we included 144 LIS journals. We also included 12 other journals not indexed in DOAJ or LISA, based on the researchers’ knowledge of existing OA library journals. The data is separated into several different sets representing the different indices and journals we searched. The first set includes journals from the database LISA. The following fields are in this dataset:

Journal: title of the journal

Publisher: title of the publishing company

Open Data Policy: lists whether an open data exists and what the policy is

Country of publication: country where the journal is publ..., , # Open access practices of selected library science journals

The data in this set was culled from the Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ), the Proquest database Library and Information Science Abstracts (LISA), and a sample of peer reviewed scholarly journals in the field of Library Science.

The data include journals that are open access, which was first defined by the Budapest Open Access Initiative:Â

By ‘open access’ to [scholarly] literature, we mean its free availability on the public internet, permitting any users to read, download, copy, distribute, print, search, or link to the full texts of these articles, crawl them for indexing, pass them as data to software, or use them for any other lawful purpose, without financial, legal, or technical barriers other than those inseparable from gaining access to the internet itself.

Starting with a batch of 377 journals, we focused our dataset to include journals that met the following criteria: 1) peer-reviewed 2) written in Engli...

Introduction: These datasets contain information about journals in the eight regions of the world based on United Nations SDG classification (Central& Southern Asia, Europe, Eastern &South Eastern Asia, Latin America, North Africa& Western Asia, Oceania, North America and Sub-Saharan Africa) that are indexed in Web of Science/Scopus and are available in Ulrich periodical directory. The datasets were created by matching Ulrich journal information with journal information from Web of Science and Scopus.

Data Creation: A single Web of Science master journal list was created for SSCI, SCI, AHCI and ESCI by combining and removing duplicate records from their lists; the Web of Science master journal contained 21,908 unique journals. Only active scholarly journals from Scopus were included in this study; i.e. duplicates, all inactive sources, trade journals, book series, monographs and conference proceedings were removed. 26,029 active journals of the 43,013 sources in Scopus were included. Journal lists from 239 countries were collected from Ulrich comprehensive periodical directory and analyzed by region. After removal of duplicates, this generated a database of 83,429 unique active academic journals. To compile regional and global datasets, duplicate journals in the regional and global levels, respectively, were removed. The master journal lists created from Web of Science, Scopus and Ulrich were transferred to an SQL database for querying. Journal matching was carried out in two steps. Firstly, the ISSN numbers of journals in Web of Science and Scopus were used to match journal records to Ulrich. In the second step, the remaining journals were then matched using their titles, and these matches were manually verified to reduce the chances of false positives. Using these two steps, we were able to match 20,255 (92.46%) of the journals in Web of Science, and 23,349 (89.70%) of the academic journals from Scopus, with Ulrichsweb journal list.

Database of bibliographic citations of multidisciplinary areas that covers various journals of medical, scientific, and social sciences including humanities.Publisher independent global citation database.

Academic journals indicators developed from the information contained in the Scopus database (Elsevier B.V.). These indicators can be used to assess and analyze scientific domains.

International Journal of Scientific and Technology Research FAQ - ResearchHelpDesk - IJSTR - International Journal of Scientific & Technology Research is an open access international journal from diverse fields in sciences, engineering, and technologies Open Access that emphasizes new research, development, and applications. Papers reporting original research or extended versions of already published conference/journal papers are all welcomed. Papers for publication are selected through peer review to ensure originality, relevance, and readability. IJSTR ensures a wide indexing policy to make published papers highly visible to the scientific community. IJSTR is part of the eco-friendly community and favors e-publication mode for being an online 'GREEN journal'. IJSTR is an international peer-reviewed, electronic, online journal published monthly. The aim and scope of the journal is to provide an academic medium and an important reference for the advancement and dissemination of research results that support high-level learning, teaching, and research in the fields of engineering, science, and technology. Original theoretical work and application-based studies, which contribute to a better understanding of engineering, science, and technological challenges, are encouraged. IJSTR Publication Charges IJSTR covers the costs partially through article processing fees. IJSTR expenses are split among peer review administration and management, production of articles in PDF format, editorial costs, electronic composition and production, journal information system, manuscript management system, electronic archiving, overhead expenses, and administrative costs. Moreover, we are providing research paper publishing in minimum available costing such as there are no charges for rejected articles, no submission charges, and no surcharges based on the figures or supplementary data. IJSTR Publication Indexing IJSTR ​​​​​submit all published papers to indexing partners. Indexing totally depends on the content, indexing partner guidelines, and their indexing procedures. This is the reason sometimes indexing happens immediately and sometimes it takes time. Publication with IJSTR does not guarantee that paper will surely be added indexing partner website. The whole process for including any article (s) in the Scopus database is done by the Scopus team only. Journal or Publication House doesn't have any involvement in the decision whether to accept or reject a paper for the Scopus database and cannot influence the processing time of paper. International Journal of Scientific & Technology Research RG Journal Impact: 0.31 * *This value is calculated using ResearchGate data and is based on average citation counts from work published in this journal. The data used in the calculation may not be exhaustive. RG Journal impact history 2018 / 2019 0.31 2017 0.34 2016 0.33 2015 0.36 2014 0.19 Is Ijstr Scopus indexed? Yes IJSTR - International Journal of Scientific & Technology Research Journal is Scopus indexed. please visit for more details - IJSTR Scoups

This is dataset about Serbian papers published in journals indexed in Web of Science collections in the period 2003-2021
We used as "serbian" countries: Serbia, Serbia and Montenegro, Yugoslavia

The terms Serbian researcher and Serbian paper used in this dataset are defined as follows:
Serbian researcher is a researcher affiliated with a Serbian institution,
Serbian paper is a paper with at least one Serbian researcher in the list of authors.
This means that a paper published by a researcher with non-Serbian nationality (i.e. German) working at a Serbian institution is taken into account in the analysis of Serbian papers described in this paper.

Thomson Reuters’ Web of Science (WoS) database was used for data acquisition. We searched Serbian papers in two WoS collections - Science Citation Index Expanded (SCIE) and the Social Science Citation Index (SSCI). The search query executed over those collections on 18th of January, 2022.
CU=(%Serbia% OR %Serbia and Montenegro% OR %Yugoslavia%) AND PY=[2003-2021]

We also analyzed the number of articles of Serbian researchers published in journals with an unstable impact factor (IF), i.e. journals which didn’t have an IF before 2008, and had one in some subperiod of 2008-2015, i.e. lost their IF until 2015. The majority of those journals stopped being indexed in Web of Science as a ban for losing the quality or having predatory journal behavior. We found 143 such journals and their ISSNs by using the JCR (Journal citation reports in the period 2007 - 2015).

Journals & Ranking

An academic journal or research journal is a periodical publication in which research articles relating to a particular academic discipline is published, according to Wikipedia. Currently, there are more than 25,000 peer-reviewed journals that are indexed in citation index databases such as Scopus and Web of Science. These indexes are ranked on the basis of various metrics such as CiteScore, H-index, etc. The metrics are calculated from yearly citation data of the journal. A lot of efforts are given to make a metric that reflects the journal's quality.

Journal Ranking Dataset

This is a comprehensive dataset on the academic journals coving their metadata information as well as citation, metrics, and ranking information. Detailed data on their subject area is also given in this dataset. The dataset is collected from the following indexing databases: - Scimago Journal Ranking - Scopus - Web of Science Master Journal List

The data is collected by scraping and then it was cleaned, details of which can be found in HERE.

Key Features

• Rank: Overall rank of journal (derived from sorted SJR index).
• Title: Name or title of journal.
• OA: Open Access or not.
• Country: Country of origin.
• SJR-index: A citation index calculated by Scimago.
• CiteScore: A citation index calculated by Scopus.
• H-index: Hirsh index, the largest number h such that at least h articles in that journal were cited at least h times each.
• Best Quartile: Top Q-index or quartile a journal has in any subject area.
• Best Categories: Subject areas with top quartile.
• Best Subject Area: Highest ranking subject area.
• Best Subject Rank: Rank of the highest ranking subject area.
• Total Docs.: Total number of documents of the journal.
• Total Docs. 3y: Total number of documents in the past 3 years.
• Total Refs.: Total number of references of the journal.
• Total Cites 3y: Total number of citations in the past 3 years.
• Citable Docs. 3y: Total number of citable documents in the past 3 years.
• Cites/Doc. 2y: Total number of citations divided by the total number of documents in the past 2 years.
• Refs./Doc.: Total number of references divided by the total number of documents.
• Publisher: Name of the publisher company of the journal.
• Core Collection: Web of Science core collection name.
• Coverage: Starting year of coverage.
• Active: Active or inactive.
• In-Press: Articles in press or not.
• ISO Language Code: Three-letter ISO 639 code for language.
• ASJC Codes: All Science Journal Classification codes for the journal.

Rest of the features provide further details on the journal's subject area or category: - Life Sciences: Top level subject area. - Social Sciences: Top level subject area. - Physical Sciences: Top level subject area. - Health Sciences: Top level subject area. - 1000 General: ASJC main category. - 1100 Agricultural and Biological Sciences: ASJC main category. - 1200 Arts and Humanities: ASJC main category. - 1300 Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: ASJC main category. - 1400 Business, Management and Accounting: ASJC main category. - 1500 Chemical Engineering: ASJC main category. - 1600 Chemistry: ASJC main category. - 1700 Computer Science: ASJC main category. - 1800 Decision Sciences: ASJC main category. - 1900 Earth and Planetary Sciences: ASJC main category. - 2000 Economics, Econometrics and Finance: ASJC main category. - 2100 Energy: ASJC main category. - 2200 Engineering: ASJC main category. - 2300 Environmental Science: ASJC main category. - 2400 Immunology and Microbiology: ASJC main category. - 2500 Materials Science: ASJC main category. - 2600 Mathematics: ASJC main category. - 2700 Medicine: ASJC main category. - 2800 Neuroscience: ASJC main category. - 2900 Nursing: ASJC main category. - 3000 Pharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics: ASJC main category. - 3100 Physics and Astronomy: ASJC main category. - 3200 Psychology: ASJC main category. - 3300 Social Sciences: ASJC main category. - 3400 Veterinary: ASJC main category. - 3500 Dentistry: ASJC main category. - 3600 Health Professions: ASJC main category.

Journal of environmental biology FAQ - ResearchHelpDesk - Journal of Environmental Biology (JEB) is one of the oldest peer-reviewed research journals published in India since 1980. In the year 1978, an International Conference was organized at Muzaffarnagar, India. Participating delegates of the conference realized the need of an international research Journal to cater to the needs of Environmental Biologists and Toxicologists, and the organizer of the conference Dr. R. C. Dalela, was entrusted the responsibility to take the necessary steps. After several meetings, the Journal of Environmental Biology was launched on 7th October 1980 with Dr. Dalela as Editor-in-chief and was registered with the Government of India (GOI). In 1996, the editorial office of the Journal shifted to Lucknow and the registration was revised by GOI, accordingly. Website (www.jeb.co.in) of the journal was launched in 2006 with Open Access facility free-of-charge. Aims and Scope: Journal of Environmental Biology is a broad-based, peer-reviewed International Journal that publishes in English Language original research papers and research reviews (with prior permission) from all areas of Environmental Biology such as : Environmental Science Biological Science Environment Engineering Environmental Health Biotechnology Microbiology Biochemistry Toxicology Ecology Agricultural Sciences including Forestry and Fish & Fisheries Abstracting & Indexing Journal of Environmental Biology is covered by the following Abstracting and Indexing Services Medline® Scopus® Embase® Geo Abstracts Paryavaran Abstracts Toxicology Abstracts Zoological Record® Biological Abstracts® Chemical AbstractsTM Indian Science Abstracts ESCI PubMed® Aqualine Science Direct Web of Science Global Health EBSCO Discovery Service Essential Science Indicators BIOSIS Previews Pollution Abstracts Excerpta Medica Environment Complete™ Environmental Abstracts Cambridge Scientific Abstracts Veterinary Science Database Environmental Science Database Elsevier Bibliographic Databases Forest Science Database (CABI) Aquatic Sciences and Fisheries Abstracts (ASFA) Current Contents® (Agriculture, Biology and Environ. Sci.)

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ScienceCentral is a free or open access full-text archive of scientific society journal literature hosted by the Korean Federation of Science and Technology Societies. It was launched in December 2013. We analyzed the number of articles deposited, page views by period, country of visitors, number of visitors, and entry point of visits. Descriptive statistics were presented. We also hypothesized that visitors accessed ScienceCentral mostly through Google and Google Scholar since ScienceCentral allows Googlebot to index it. The number of deposited articles was 19,419 from 124 journals in December 2016. The number of page views per month was 20,228 in December 2016. The top countries of visitors were South Korea (39.9%), the United States (13.26%), India (4.2%), China (3.4%), and Russia (3.2%). The average number of page views per article a month in December 2016 was 1.0. Google and Google Scholar were powerful referral sites to ScienceCentral. Except for direct visits to ScienceCentral, seven out of the top ten access sites to ScienceCentral were Google or Google Scholar sites from a variety of countries. Although the number of visitors and page views has increased continuously, the average number of page views per article a month has not increased.

The dataset contains all the data produced running the research software for the study:"Open Science for Social Sciences and Humanities: Open Access availability and distribution across disciplines and Countries in OpenCitations Meta".

Disclaimer: these results are not considered to be representative, because we have fount that Mega Journals skewed significantly some of the data. The result datasets without Mega Journals are published here.

Description of datasets:

SSH_Publications_in_OC_Meta_and_Open_Access_status.csv: containing information about OpenCitations Meta coverage of ERIH PLUS Journals as well as their Open Access availability. In this dataset, every row holds data for a Journal of ERIH PLUS also covered by OpenCitations Meta database. It is structured with the following columns: "EP_id", the internal ERIH PLUS identifier; "Publications_in_venue", the numbers of Publications counted in each venue; "OC_omid", the internal OpenCitations Meta identifier for the venue; "issn", numbers of publications in each venue; "Open Access", a value to represent if the journal is OA or not, either "True" or "Unknown".

SSH_Publications_by_Discipline.csv: containing information about number of publications per discipline (in addition, number of journals per discipline are also included). The dataset has three columns, the first, labeled "Discipline", contains single disciplines of the ERIH classificaton, the second and the third, labeled "Journal_count" and "Publication_count", respectively, the number of Journals and the number of Publications counted for each discipline.

SSH_Publications_and_Journals_by_Country: containing information about number of publications and journals per country. The dataset has three columns, the first, labeled "Country", contains single countries of the ERIH classificaton, the second and the third, labeled "Journal_count" and "Publication_count", respectively, the number of Journals and the number of Publications counted for each discipline.

result_disciplines.json: the dictionary containing all disciplines as key and a list of related ERIH PLUS venue identifiers as value.

result_countries.json: the dictionary containing all countries as key and a list of related ERIH PLUS venue identifiers as value.

duplicate_omids.csv: a dataset containing the duplicated Journal entries in OpenCitations Meta, structured with two columns: "OC_omid", the internal OC Meta identifier; "issn", the issn values associated to that identifier

eu_data.csv: contains the data specific for European countries' SSH Journals covered in OCMeta. It is structured with the following columns: "EP_id", the internal ERIH PLUS identifier; "Publications_in_venue", the numbers of Publications counted in each venue; "Original_Title", "Country_of_Publication","ERIH_PLUS_Disciplines", "disc_count", the number of disciplines per Journal.

eu_disciplines_count.csv: containing information about number of publications per discipline and number of journals per discipline of european countries. The dataset has three columns, the first, labeled "Discipline", contains single disciplines of the ERIH classificaton, the second and the third, labeled "Journal_count" and "Publication_count", respectively, the number of Journals and the number of Publications counted for each discipline.

meta_coverage_eu.csv: contains the data specific for European countries' SSH Journals covered in OCMeta. It is structured with the following columns: "EP_id", the internal ERIH PLUS identifier; "Publications_in_venue", the numbers of Publications counted in each venue; "OC_omid", the internal OpenCitations Meta identifier for the venue; "issn", numbers of publications in each venue; "Open Access", a value to represent if the journal is OA or not, either "True" or "Unknown".

us_data.csv: contains the data specific for the United States' SSH Journals covered in OCMeta. It is structured with the following columns: "EP_id", the internal ERIH PLUS identifier; "Publications_in_venue", the numbers of Publications counted in each venue; "Original_Title", "Country_of_Publication","ERIH_PLUS_Disciplines", "disc_count", the number of disciplines per Journal.

us_disciplines_count.csv: containing information about number of publications per discipline and number of journals per discipline of the United States. The dataset has three columns, the first, labeled "Discipline", contains single disciplines of the ERIH classificaton, the second and the third, labeled "Journal_count" and "Publication_count", respectively, the number of Journals and the number of Publications counted for each discipline.

meta_coverage_us.csv: contains the data specific for the United States' SSH Journals covered in OCMeta. It is structured with the following columns: "EP_id", the internal ERIH PLUS identifier; "Publications_in_venue", the numbers of Publications counted in each venue; "OC_omid", the internal OpenCitations Meta identifier for the venue; "issn", numbers of publications in each venue; "Open Access", a value to represent if the journal is OA or not, either "True" or "Unknown".

Abstract of the research:

Purpose: this study aims to investigate the representation and distribution of Social Science and Humanities (SSH) journals within the OpenCitations Meta database, with a particular emphasis on their Open Access (OA) status, as well as their spread across different disciplines and countries. The underlying premise is that open infrastructures play a pivotal role in promoting transparency, reproducibility, and trust in scientific research. Study Design and Methodology: the study is grounded on the premise that open infrastructures are crucial for ensuring transparency, reproducibility, and fostering trust in scientific research. The research methodology involved the use of secondary data sources, namely the OpenCitations Meta database, the ERIH PLUS bibliographic index, and the DOAJ index. A custom research software was developed in Python to facilitate the processing and analysis of the data. Findings: the results reveal that 78.1% of SSH journals listed in the European Reference Index for the Humanities (ERIH-PLUS) are included in the OpenCitations Meta database. The discipline of Psychology has the highest number of publications. The United States and the United Kingdom are the leading contributors in terms of the number of publications. However, the study also uncovers that only 38% of the SSH journals in the OpenCitations Meta database are OA. Originality: this research adds to the existing body of knowledge by providing insights into the representation of SSH in open bibliographic databases and the role of open access in this domain. The study highlights the necessity for advocating OA practices within SSH and the significance of open data for bibliometric studies. It further encourages additional research into the impact of OA on various facets of citation patterns and the factors leading to disparity across disciplinary representation.

Related resources:

Ghasempouri S., Ghiotto M., & Giacomini S. (2023). Open Science for Social Sciences and Humanities: Open Access availability and distribution across disciplines and Countries in OpenCitations Meta - RESEARCH ARTICLE. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.8263908

Ghasempouri, S., Ghiotto, M., Giacomini, S., (2023). Open Science for Social Sciences and Humanities: Open Access availability and distribution across disciplines and Countries in OpenCitations Meta - DATA MANAGEMENT PLAN (Version 4). Zenodo. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.8174644

Ghasempouri, S., Ghiotto, M., Giacomini, S. (2023e). Open Science for Social Sciences and Humanities: Open Access availability and distribution across disciplines and Countries in OpenCitations Meta - PROTOCOL. V.5. (https://dx.doi.org/10.17504/protocols.io.5jyl8jo1rg2w/v5)

Polymer engineering and science Impact Factor 2024-2025 - ResearchHelpDesk - Polymer engineering and science - Every day, the Society of Plastics Engineers (SPE) takes action to help companies in the plastics industry succeed. How? By spreading knowledge, strengthening skills and promoting plastics. Employing these vital strategies, Polymer engineering and science - SPE has helped the plastics industry thrive for over 60 years. In the process, we've developed a 25,000-member network of leading engineers and other plastics professionals, including technicians, salespeople, marketers, retailers, and representatives from tertiary industries. For more than 30 years, Polymer Engineering & Science has been one of the most highly regarded journals in the field, serving as a forum for authors of treatises on the cutting edge of polymer science and technology. The importance of PE&S is underscored by the frequent rate at which its articles are cited, especially by other publications - literally thousands of times a year. Engineers, researchers, technicians, and academicians worldwide are looking to PE&S for the valuable information they need. There are special issues compiled by distinguished guest editors. These contain proceedings of symposia on such diverse topics as polyblends, mechanics of plastics and polymer welding. Abstracting and Indexing Information Academic ASAP (GALE Cengage) Advanced Technologies & Aerospace Database (ProQuest) Applied Science & Technology Index/Abstracts (EBSCO Publishing) CAS: Chemical Abstracts Service (ACS) CCR Database (Clarivate Analytics) Chemical Abstracts Service/SciFinder (ACS) Chemistry Server Reaction Center (Clarivate Analytics) ChemWeb (ChemIndustry.com) Chimica Database (Elsevier) COMPENDEX (Elsevier) Current Contents: Engineering, Computing & Technology (Clarivate Analytics) Current Contents: Physical, Chemical & Earth Sciences (Clarivate Analytics) Expanded Academic ASAP (GALE Cengage) InfoTrac (GALE Cengage) Journal Citation Reports/Science Edition (Clarivate Analytics) Materials Science & Engineering Database (ProQuest) PASCAL Database (INIST/CNRS) Polymer Library (iSmithers RAPRA) ProQuest Central (ProQuest) ProQuest Central K-462 Reaction Citation Index (Clarivate Analytics) Research Library (ProQuest) Research Library Prep (ProQuest) Science Citation Index (Clarivate Analytics) Science Citation Index Expanded (Clarivate Analytics) SciTech Premium Collection (ProQuest) SCOPUS (Elsevier) STEM Database (ProQuest) Technology Collection (ProQuest) Web of Science (Clarivate Analytics)

This description is part of the blog post "Systematic Literature Review of teaching Open Science" https://sozmethode.hypotheses.org/839

According to my opinion, we do not pay enough attention to teaching Open Science in higher education. Therefore, I designed a seminar to teach students the practices of Open Science by doing qualitative research.About this seminar, I wrote the article ”Teaching Open Science and qualitative methods“. For the article ”Teaching Open Science and qualitative methods“, I started to review the literature on ”Teaching Open Science“. The result of my literature review is that certain aspects of Open Science are used for teaching. However, Open Science with all its aspects (Open Access, Open Data, Open Methodology, Open Science Evaluation and Open Science Tools) is not an issue in publications about teaching.

Based on this insight, I have started a systematic literature review. I realized quickly that I need help to analyse and interpret the articles and to evaluate my preliminary findings. Especially different disciplinary cultures of teaching different aspects of Open Science are challenging, as I myself, as a social scientist, do not have enough insight to be able to interpret the results correctly. Therefore, I would like to invite you to participate in this research project!

I am now looking for people who would like to join a collaborative process to further explore and write the systematic literature review on “Teaching Open Science“. Because I want to turn this project into a Massive Open Online Paper (MOOP). According to the 10 rules of Tennant et al (2019) on MOOPs, it is crucial to find a core group that is enthusiastic about the topic. Therefore, I am looking for people who are interested in creating the structure of the paper and writing the paper together with me. I am also looking for people who want to search for and review literature or evaluate the literature I have already found. Together with the interested persons I would then define, the rules for the project (cf. Tennant et al. 2019). So if you are interested to contribute to the further search for articles and / or to enhance the interpretation and writing of results, please get in touch. For everyone interested to contribute, the list of articles collected so far is freely accessible at Zotero: https://www.zotero.org/groups/2359061/teaching_open_science. The figure shown below provides a first overview of my ongoing work. I created the figure with the free software yEd and uploaded the file to zenodo, so everyone can download and work with it:

To make transparent what I have done so far, I will first introduce what a systematic literature review is. Secondly, I describe the decisions I made to start with the systematic literature review. Third, I present the preliminary results.

Systematic literature review – an Introduction

Systematic literature reviews “are a method of mapping out areas of uncertainty, and identifying where little or no relevant research has been done.” (Petticrew/Roberts 2008: 2). Fink defines the systematic literature review as a “systemic, explicit, and reproducible method for identifying, evaluating, and synthesizing the existing body of completed and recorded work produced by researchers, scholars, and practitioners.” (Fink 2019: 6). The aim of a systematic literature reviews is to surpass the subjectivity of a researchers’ search for literature. However, there can never be an objective selection of articles. This is because the researcher has for example already made a preselection by deciding about search strings, for example “Teaching Open Science”. In this respect, transparency is the core criteria for a high-quality review.

In order to achieve high quality and transparency, Fink (2019: 6-7) proposes the following seven steps:

Selecting a research question.

Selecting the bibliographic database.

Choosing the search terms.

Applying practical screening criteria.

Applying methodological screening criteria.

Doing the review.

Synthesizing the results.

I have adapted these steps for the “Teaching Open Science” systematic literature review. In the following, I will present the decisions I have made.

Systematic literature review – decisions I made

Research question: I am interested in the following research questions: How is Open Science taught in higher education? Is Open Science taught in its full range with all aspects like Open Access, Open Data, Open Methodology, Open Science Evaluation and Open Science Tools? Which aspects are taught? Are there disciplinary differences as to which aspects are taught and, if so, why are there such differences?

Databases: I started my search at the Directory of Open Science (DOAJ). “DOAJ is a community-curated online directory that indexes and provides access to high quality, open access, peer-reviewed journals.” (https://doaj.org/) Secondly, I used the Bielefeld Academic Search Engine (base). Base is operated by Bielefeld University Library and “one of the world’s most voluminous search engines especially for academic web resources” (base-search.net). Both platforms are non-commercial and focus on Open Access publications and thus differ from the commercial publication databases, such as Web of Science and Scopus. For this project, I deliberately decided against commercial providers and the restriction of search in indexed journals. Thus, because my explicit aim was to find articles that are open in the context of Open Science.

Search terms: To identify articles about teaching Open Science I used the following search strings: “teaching open science” OR teaching “open science” OR teach „open science“. The topic search looked for the search strings in title, abstract and keywords of articles. Since these are very narrow search terms, I decided to broaden the method. I searched in the reference lists of all articles that appear from this search for further relevant literature. Using Google Scholar I checked which other authors cited the articles in the sample. If the so checked articles met my methodological criteria, I included them in the sample and looked through the reference lists and citations at Google Scholar. This process has not yet been completed.

Practical screening criteria: I have included English and German articles in the sample, as I speak these languages (articles in other languages are very welcome, if there are people who can interpret them!). In the sample only journal articles, articles in edited volumes, working papers and conference papers from proceedings were included. I checked whether the journals were predatory journals – such articles were not included. I did not include blogposts, books or articles from newspapers. I only included articles that fulltexts are accessible via my institution (University of Kassel). As a result, recently published articles at Elsevier could not be included because of the special situation in Germany regarding the Project DEAL (https://www.projekt-deal.de/about-deal/). For articles that are not freely accessible, I have checked whether there is an accessible version in a repository or whether preprint is available. If this was not the case, the article was not included. I started the analysis in May 2019.

Methodological criteria: The method described above to check the reference lists has the problem of subjectivity. Therefore, I hope that other people will be interested in this project and evaluate my decisions. I have used the following criteria as the basis for my decisions: First, the articles must focus on teaching. For example, this means that articles must describe how a course was designed and carried out. Second, at least one aspect of Open Science has to be addressed. The aspects can be very diverse (FOSS, repositories, wiki, data management, etc.) but have to comply with the principles of openness. This means, for example, I included an article when it deals with the use of FOSS in class and addresses the aspects of openness of FOSS. I did not include articles when the authors describe the use of a particular free and open source software for teaching but did not address the principles of openness or re-use.

Doing the review: Due to the methodical approach of going through the reference lists, it is possible to create a map of how the articles relate to each other. This results in thematic clusters and connections between clusters. The starting point for the map were four articles (Cook et al. 2018; Marsden, Thompson, and Plonsky 2017; Petras et al. 2015; Toelch and Ostwald 2018) that I found using the databases and criteria described above. I used yEd to generate the network. „yEd is a powerful desktop application that can be used to quickly and effectively generate high-quality diagrams.” (https://www.yworks.com/products/yed) In the network, arrows show, which articles are cited in an article and which articles are cited by others as well. In addition, I made an initial rough classification of the content using colours. This classification is based on the contents mentioned in the articles’ title and abstract. This rough content classification requires a more exact, i.e., content-based subdivision and evaluation by others, who are experts in the respective fields/disciplines.

This is a list of all the journal abbreviations from Web of Science. It is not a perfect list, not least because of the numerous errors in the Web of Science list. However, it was quite a fast way of getting most of the nearly 90 000 journal titles and abbreviations into jabref, and could be useful for other bibliographic systems and/or doing it manually. This was created using R (the only "programming language" i know), extracting the abbreviations from the web of science lists (https://images.webofknowledge.com/WOKRS520B4.1/help/WOS/A_abrvjt.html). Feel free to help with improvements!Files:wos_abbrev_table.csv - Table with full names and abbreviations, with and without dots in abbreviations.jabref_wos_abbrev.txt - Abbreviation table in Jabref formatjabref_wos_abbrev_dots.txt - Abbreviation table in Jabref format, with dots.wos_abbrev_code.R - R code used to create the list. Thanks to Daniel Graeber (dgr@bios.au.dk) for inspiration and guidance regarding the addition of dots to abbreviated journal names.

Journal of Chemistry Impact Factor 2024-2025 - ResearchHelpDesk - Journal of Chemistry is a peer-reviewed, Open Access journal that publishes original research articles as well as review articles on all aspects of fundamental and applied chemistry. Journal of Chemistry is archived in Portico, which provides permanent archiving for electronic scholarly journals, as well as via the LOCKSS initiative. It operates a fully open access publishing model which allows open global access to its published content. This model is supported through Article Processing Charges. Journal of Chemistry is included in many leading abstracting and indexing databases. For a complete list, click here. The most recent Impact Factor for Journal of Chemistry is 1.727 according to the 2018 Journal Citation Reports released by Clarivate Analytics in 2019. The journal’s most recent CiteScore is 1.32 according to the CiteScore 2018 metrics released by Scopus. Abstracting and Indexing Academic Search Alumni Edition Academic Search Complete AgBiotech Net AgBiotech News and Information AGRICOLA Agricultural Economics Database Agricultural Engineering Abstracts Agroforestry Abstracts Animal Breeding Abstracts Animal Science Database Biofuels Abstracts Botanical Pesticides CAB Abstracts Chemical Abstracts Service (CAS) CNKI Scholar Crop Physiology Abstracts Crop Science Database Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ) EBSCOhost Connection EBSCOhost Research Databases Elsevier BIOBASE - Current Awareness in Biological Sciences (CABS) EMBIOlogy Energy and Power Source Global Health Google Scholar J-Gate Portal Journal Citation Reports - Science Edition Open Access Journals Integrated Service System Project (GoOA) Primo Central Index Reaxys Science Citation Index Expanded Scopus Textile Technology Index The Summon Service WorldCat Discovery Services

The SCImago Journal & Country Rank is a publicly available portal that includes the journals and country scientific indicators developed from the information contained in the Scopus® database (Elsevier B.V.). These indicators can be used to assess and analyze scientific domains. Journals can be compared or analysed separately.

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• Journals can be grouped by subject area (27 major thematic areas), subject category (309 specific subject categories) or by country.
• Citation data is drawn from over 34,100 titles from more than 5,000 international publishers
• This platform takes its name from the SCImago Journal Rank (SJR) indicator , developed by SCImago from the widely known algorithm Google PageRank™. This indicator shows the visibility of the journals contained in the Scopus® database from 1996.
• SCImago is a research group from the Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas (CSIC), University of Granada, Extremadura, Carlos III (Madrid) and Alcalá de Henares, dedicated to information analysis, representation and retrieval by means of visualisation techniques.

☢️❓The entire dataset is obtained from public and open-access data of ScimagoJR (SCImago Journal & Country Rank)
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Available indicators:

• SJR (SCImago Journal Rank) indicator: It expresses the average number of weighted citations received in the selected year by the documents published in the selected journal in the three previous years, --i.e. weighted citations received in year X to documents published in the journal in years X-1, X-2 and X-3. See detailed description of SJR (PDF).
• H Index: The h index expresses the journal's number of articles (h) that have received at least h citations. It quantifies both journal scientific productivity and scientific impact and it is also applicable to scientists, countries, etc. (see H-index wikipedia definition)
• Total Documents: Output of the selected period. All types of documents are considered, including citable and non citable documents.
• Total Documents (3years): Published documents in the three previous years (selected year documents are excluded), i.e.when the year X is selected, then X-1, X-2 and X-3 published documents are retrieved. All types of documents are considered, including citable and non citable documents.
• Citable Documents (3 years): Number of citable documents published by a journal in the three previous years (selected year documents are excluded). Exclusively articles, reviews and conference papers are considered. Non-citable Docs. (Available in the graphics) Non-citable documents ratio in the period being considered.
• Total Cites (3years): Number of citations received in the seleted year by a journal to the documents published in the three previous years, --i.e. citations received in year X to documents published in years X-1, X-2 and X-3. All types of documents are considered.
• Cites per Document (2 years): Average citations per document in a 2 year period. It is computed considering the number of citations received by a journal in the current year to the documents published in the two previous years, --i.e. citations received in year X to documents published in years X-1 and X-2.
• Cites per Document (3 years): Average citations per document in a 3 year period. It is computed considering the number of citations received by a journal in the current year to the documents published in the three previous years, --i.e. citations received in year X to documents published in years X-1, X-2 and X-3.
• Self Cites: Number of journal's self-citations in the seleted year to its own documents published in the three previous years, --i.e. self-citations in year X to documents published in years X-1, X-2 and X-3. All types of documents are considered.
• Cited Documents: Number of documents cited at least once in the three previous years, --i.e. years X-1, X-2 and X-3
• Uncited Documents: Number of uncited documents in the three previous years, --i.e. years X-1, X-2 and X-3
• Total References: It includes all the bibliographical references in a journal in the selected period.
• References per Document:Average number of references per document in the selected year.
• % International Collaboration: Document ratio whose affiliation includes more than one country address.

In recent decades, we have observed an intensification of science, technology and innovation activities in Brazil. The increase in production of scientific papers indexed in international databases, however, has not been accompanied by an equivalent increase in the impact of publications. This paper presents a methodology for analyzing production and the impact of certain research areas in Brazil related to two aspects: the origin of the journals (national or foreign) and international collaboration. These two variables were selected for being of particular importance in understanding the context of scientific production and communication in countries with emerging economies. The sample consisted of papers written by Brazilian researchers in 19 subfields of knowledge published from 2002 to 2011, totaling 85,082 papers. To calculate the impact, we adopted a normalized indicator called the relative subfield citedness (Rw) using a window of 5 years to obtain measurements evaluated in 2 different years: 2007 and 2012. The data on papers and citations were collected from the Web of Science database. From the results, we note that most of the subfields have presented, from one quinquennium to another, improved performance in the world production rankings. Regarding publication in national and foreign journals, we observed a trend in the distribution maintenance of production of the subfields based on the origin of the journal. Specifically, for impact, we identified a lower Rw pattern for Brazilian papers when they were published in national journals in all subfields. When Brazilian products are published in foreign journals, we observed a higher impact for those papers, even surpassing the average global impact in some subfields. For international collaboration, we analyzed the percentage of participation of foreign researchers and the connection between collaboration and the impact of papers, especially emphasizing the distinction of hyperauthorship papers in terms of production and impact.

The full text database market is projected to reach a value of USD XXX million by 2033, exhibiting a CAGR of XX% during the forecast period (2025-2033). The growth of the market is attributed to the increasing adoption of digital content, the need for efficient and comprehensive research tools, and the growing demand for customized and personalized content. The market is segmented on the basis of type (comprehensive database, special classification database), application (enterprise, government, school, others), and region (North America, South America, Europe, Middle East & Africa, Asia Pacific). Key drivers of the market include the rising demand for accurate and up-to-date information, the growing use of artificial intelligence and machine learning in data analysis, and the increasing popularity of cloud-based database solutions. However, factors such as data security concerns, privacy regulations, and competition from open access databases may hinder the market growth. Major players in the market include John Wiley & Sons, ICPSR, IEEE, EBSCO, UMI, Blackwell, Springer Link, Elsevier Science, Apache Solr, Elastic N.V., CNKI, China Science and Technology Journal Database, Wanfang Data Knowledge Service Platform, China Science Citation Database, Chinese, Western, Japanese and Russian Journals Joint Directory Database, among others.

Journal lists of all the 46 Sub-Saharan African countries were retrieved manually from Ulrich periodical database using the "country of publication" field in the advanced search interface. Delimiters were used to limit the retrieved results to periodicals in the journal categories and with active status. Ulrich's database usually multiple records for the different formats (eg. online and print), or languages in which a single journal is published. Duplicates were removed from the retrieved results.

Master journal lists for Web of Science indexes comprising of the Science Citation Index Expanded (SCIE), the Social Science Citation Index (SSCI) and the Arts and Humanities Citation Index (A&HCI) and Emerging Sources Citation Index ESCI. Master journal lists for Scopus, EMBASE and MEDLINE databases were downloaded from their respective publishers' websites. Master journal lists for AJOL was not available on the publishers' website. Therefore, the master journal list from AJOL was created manually by extracting journal information from the publishers' websites. Only active journals were included in the study, where active journals were defined as journals that have published at least an issue in 2021 or 2020. The master journal list for AIM was not available as well. The whole database comprising of 18,949 articles were downloaded with the source (journal names). Journals were sorted to identify unique journal names, where only 15,279 articles had identifiable journal names. Five hundred twenty-four unique journals were identified, with only 74 active journals. Journals that were not indexed in the AIM database in 2020 or 2021 were deemed inactive and were not included in the study. This study was not considered for ethics review because data used was collected from publicly available records.