etc)

Research data to accommodate the article "Overlay journals: a study of the current landscape" (https://doi.org/10.1177/09610006221125208)

Identifying the sample of overlay journals was an explorative process (occurring during April 2021 to February 2022). The sample of investigated overlay journals were identified by using the websites of Episciences.org (2021), Scholastica (2021), Free Journal Network (2021), Open Journals (2021), PubPub (2022), and Wikipedia (2021). In total, this study identified 34 overlay journals. Please see the paper for more details about the excluded journal types.

The journal ISSN numbers, manuscript source repositories, first overlay volumes, article volumes, publication languages, peer-review type, licence for published articles, author costs, publisher types, submission policy, and preprint availability policy were observed by inspecting journal editorial policies and submission guidelines found from journal websites. The overlay journals’ ISSN numbers were identified by examining journal websites and cross-checking this information with the Ulrich’s periodicals database (Ulrichsweb, 2021). Journals that published review reports, either with reviewers’ names or anonymously, were classified as operating with open peer-review. Publisher types defined by Laakso and Björk (2013) were used to categorise the findings concerning the publishers. If the journal website did not include publisher information, the editorial board was interpreted to publish the journal.

The Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) field of science classification was used to categorise the journals into different domains of science. The journals’ primary OECD field of sciences were defined by the authors through examining the journal websites.

Whether the journals were indexed in the Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ), Scopus, or Clarivate Analytics’ Web of Science Core collection’s journal master list was examined by searching the services with journal ISSN numbers and journal titles.

The identified overlay journals were examined from the viewpoint of both qualitative and quantitative journal metrics. The qualitative metrics comprised the Nordic expert panel rankings of scientific journals, namely the Finnish Publication Forum, the Danish Bibliometric Research Indicator and the Norwegian Register for Scientific Journals, Series and Publishers. Searches were conducted from the web portals of the above services with both ISSN numbers and journal titles. Clarivate Analytics’ Journal Citation Reports database was searched with the use of both ISSN numbers and journal titles to identify whether the journals had a Journal Citation Indicator (JCI), Two-Year Impact Factor (IF) and an Impact Factor ranking (IF rank). The examined Journal Impact Factors and Impact Factor rankings were for the year 2020 (as released in 2021).

This single journal study investigated the predatory journal landscape in the information systems field, by analysing the International Journal of Applied Information Systems (IJAIS). The IJAIS was viewed from a bibliometric and citation perspective. The bibliometric study examined article productivity, authorship patterns and collaboration. An analysis was performed of 728 articles published in 11 volumes and 104 issues of IJAIS in the period 2012 to 2017. The citation study analysed citations to IJAIS papers in Scopus and Web of Science. A cited reference search was conducted in Scopus and Web of Science, and IJAIS papers cited in the list of references or works cited in Scopus or Web of Science papers were retrieved. Results of the bibliometric study revealed that the average number of articles per volume in IJAIS was 62. 1837 authors contributed to this journal. The journal displays a collaborative authorship pattern with 627 (86.13%) articles that were co-authored, compared to 101 (13.87%) that were single authored. The citation study showed that 751 Scopus papers cite IJAIS, of which 18 were review papers, compared to 153 Web of Science papers that cite IJAIS of which 9 were review papers. Of the 728 IJAIS articles published, 198 (27.2%) papers were cited in Scopus and Web of Science combined.

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.

Version: 6

Date of data collection: May 2025

General description: Publication of datasets according to the FAIR principles could be reached publishing a data paper (and/or a software paper) in data journals as well as in academic standard journals. The excel and CSV file contains a list of academic journals that publish data papers and software papers.

File list:

- data_articles_journal_list_v6.xlsx: full list of 177 academic journals in which data papers or/and software papers could be published
- data_articles_journal_list_v6.csv: full list of 177 academic journals in which data papers or/and software papers could be published
- readme_v6.txt, with a detailed descritption of the dataset and its variables.

Relationship between files: both files have the same information. Two different formats are offered to improve reuse

Type of version of the dataset: final processed version

Versions of the files: 6th version
- Information updated: number of journals (17 were added and 4 were deleted), URL, document types associated to a specific journal.
- Information added: diamond journals were identified.

Version: 5

Authors: Carlota Balsa-Sánchez, Vanesa Loureiro

Date of data collection: 2023/09/05

General description: The publication of datasets according to the FAIR principles, could be reached publishing a data paper (or software paper) in data journals or in academic standard journals. The excel and CSV file contains a list of academic journals that publish data papers and software papers.
File list:

- data_articles_journal_list_v5.xlsx: full list of 162 academic journals in which data papers or/and software papers could be published
- data_articles_journal_list_v5.csv: full list of 162 academic journals in which data papers or/and software papers could be published

Relationship between files: both files have the same information. Two different formats are offered to improve reuse

Type of version of the dataset: final processed version

Versions of the files: 5th version
- Information updated: number of journals, URL, document types associated to a specific journal.
163 journals (excel y csv)

Version: 4

Authors: Carlota Balsa-Sánchez, Vanesa Loureiro

Date of data collection: 2022/12/15

General description: The publication of datasets according to the FAIR principles, could be reached publishing a data paper (or software paper) in data journals or in academic standard journals. The excel and CSV file contains a list of academic journals that publish data papers and software papers.
File list:

- data_articles_journal_list_v4.xlsx: full list of 140 academic journals in which data papers or/and software papers could be published
- data_articles_journal_list_v4.csv: full list of 140 academic journals in which data papers or/and software papers could be published

Relationship between files: both files have the same information. Two different formats are offered to improve reuse

Type of version of the dataset: final processed version

Versions of the files: 4th version
- Information updated: number of journals, URL, document types associated to a specific journal, publishers normalization and simplification of document types
- Information added : listed in the Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ), indexed in Web of Science (WOS) and quartile in Journal Citation Reports (JCR) and/or Scimago Journal and Country Rank (SJR), Scopus and Web of Science (WOS), Journal Master List.

Version: 3

Authors: Carlota Balsa-Sánchez, Vanesa Loureiro

Date of data collection: 2022/10/28

General description: The publication of datasets according to the FAIR principles, could be reached publishing a data paper (or software paper) in data journals or in academic standard journals. The excel and CSV file contains a list of academic journals that publish data papers and software papers.
File list:

- data_articles_journal_list_v3.xlsx: full list of 124 academic journals in which data papers or/and software papers could be published
- data_articles_journal_list_3.csv: full list of 124 academic journals in which data papers or/and software papers could be published

Relationship between files: both files have the same information. Two different formats are offered to improve reuse

Type of version of the dataset: final processed version

Versions of the files: 3rd version
- Information updated: number of journals, URL, document types associated to a specific journal, publishers normalization and simplification of document types
- Information added : listed in the Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ), indexed in Web of Science (WOS) and quartile in Journal Citation Reports (JCR) and/or Scimago Journal and Country Rank (SJR).

Erratum - Data articles in journals Version 3:

Botanical Studies -- ISSN 1999-3110 -- JCR (JIF) Q2
Data -- ISSN 2306-5729 -- JCR (JIF) n/a
Data in Brief -- ISSN 2352-3409 -- JCR (JIF) n/a

Version: 2

Author: Francisco Rubio, Universitat Politècnia de València.

Date of data collection: 2020/06/23

General description: The publication of datasets according to the FAIR principles, could be reached publishing a data paper (or software paper) in data journals or in academic standard journals. The excel and CSV file contains a list of academic journals that publish data papers and software papers.
File list:

- data_articles_journal_list_v2.xlsx: full list of 56 academic journals in which data papers or/and software papers could be published
- data_articles_journal_list_v2.csv: full list of 56 academic journals in which data papers or/and software papers could be published

Relationship between files: both files have the same information. Two different formats are offered to improve reuse

Type of version of the dataset: final processed version

Versions of the files: 2nd version
- Information updated: number of journals, URL, document types associated to a specific journal, publishers normalization and simplification of document types
- Information added : listed in the Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ), indexed in Web of Science (WOS) and quartile in Scimago Journal and Country Rank (SJR)

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Version 1: Description

This dataset contains a list of journals that publish data articles, code, software articles and database articles.

The search strategy in DOAJ and Ulrichsweb was the search for the word data in the title of the journals.
Acknowledgements:
Xaquín Lores Torres for his invaluable help in preparing this dataset.

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.

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.

The database includes information on Russian journals published by Federal universities, National Research universities and Basic universities and covers such aspects as indexing information in different bibliographic databases, volumes of indexed papers in 2018-2022, rankings in different databases, subject categories, geographical locations, numbers of issues per year, list of founders, journals sites, etc. (in total 59 variables).

A list of Australian journals that are currently (in 2021) active. Australian journals are defined here as journals that belong to or are affiliated with an Australian entity including educational institutions, non-profit organisations, small commercial publishers, government bodies and so on. The list was compiled by searching in multiple databases including Ulrich's directory of periodicals, Scopus, Web of Science, and DOAJ. Each journal was checked for information to verify whether it was Australian. The data include Title, ISSN, Country of publisher, website link, start year, Corporate author (the body that sponsors editorial processes and might own the journal or the journal might be affiliated with), publisher, Field of Research code (based on The Australian and New Zealand Standard Research Classification 2018), whether the journal is listed in Scopus, Web of Science, Excellence in Research for Australia (ERA) list of 2018.

The data about the share of English Language documents in previous two years and value of Impact Factor in 3th year from 2006 to 2016 years. The data was prepared for article: Non-English language publications in Citation Indexes – quantity and quality / Olga Moskaleva and Mark Akoev // 17th International Conference on Scientometrics and Informetrics ISSI 2019 and 24rd International Conference on Science, Technology and Innovation STI 2019

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).

This dataset was compiled as part of a study on Barriers and Opportunities in the Discoverability and Indexing of Student-led Academic Journals. The list of student journals and their details is compiled from public sources. This list is used to identify the presence of Canadian student journals in Google Scholar as well as in select indexes and databases: DOAJ, Scopus, Web of Science, Medline, Erudit, ProQuest, and HeinOnline. Additionally, journal publishing platform is recorded to be used for a correlational analysis against Google Scholar indexing results. For further details see README.

A comprehensive list of ecology and evolution journals including citations, impact factor, and eigenfactor scores. Data derived from the 2018 Journal Citation Reports bibliometric tools.

Master List: Consolidated Web of Science (SSCI, SCIE, ESCI) and Scopus data. Used for the article 'Latin American triple-A journals 1: A quality roadmap from the quality indicators and journals’ presence in Web of Science and Scopus', published in Information Development 33(4) by Machin-Mastromatteo, J.D., Tarango, J., and Medina-Yllescas, E. (2017).

Merged PLOS ONE and Web of Science data compiled in .dta files produced by STATA13. Included is a Do-file for reproducing the regression model estimates reported in the pre-print (Tables I and II) and published version (Table 1). Each observation (.dta line) corresponds to a given PLOS ONE article, with various article-level and editor-level characteristics used as explanatory and control variables. This summary provides a brief description of each variable and its source.

If you use this data, please cite: A. M. Petersen. Megajournal mismanagement: Manuscript decision bias and anomalous editor activity at PLOS ONE. Journal of Informetrics 13, 100974 (2019). DOI: 10.1016/j.joi.2019.100974

Methods We gathered the citation information for all PLOS ONE articles, indexed by A, from the Web of Science (WOS) Core Collection. From this data we obtained a master list of the unique digital object identifier, DOIA and the number of citations, cA, at the time of the data download (census) date

(a) For the pre-print this corresponds to December 3, 2016;

(b) and for the final published article this corresponds to February 25, 2019.

We then used each DOIA to access the corresponding online XML version of each article at PLOS ONE by visiting the unique web address “http://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=” + “DOIA”. After parsing the full-text XML (primarily the author byline data and reference list), we merged the PLOS ONE publication information and WOS citation data by matching on DOIA.

allofplos: PLOS has since made all full-text XML data freely available: https://www.plos.org/text-and-data-mining ; this option was not available at the moment of our data collection.

Context

The following shortlist of diamond open-access journals was compiled to increase awareness of alternative scholarly publication models among the six departments of the Faculty of Science at Utrecht University. The list is relevant to the six disciplines at the Faculty of Science: Biology, Chemistry, Mathematics, Information and Computing Sciences, Physics, and Pharmaceutical Sciences. For this purpose, a "diamond journal" is defined as a journal indexed in the Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ) that does not charge an article processing charge (APC).

Contents and Results

The Excel file titled “Diamond_journals_faculty_of_science_UU” contains the list of selected diamond journals based on the following criteria: they allow submissions in English, have a plagiarism screening policy, possess an electronic ISSN number, and accept submissions in Biology, Chemistry, Mathematics, Information and Computing Sciences, Physics, and Pharmaceutical Sciences. In this shortlist, 355 journals meet the criteria. Out of these 355 journals, only 29 have received a DOAJ seal, 150 journals are indexed in Scopus, and 94 journals are indexed in Web of Science.

A detailed description of the methods employed to obtain this shortlist can be found in the Word file titled "Methods_and_Results".

The raw CSV data has been included under the name "Raw_DOAJ_journal_metadata_2023_07_25".

Limitations

The compilers of this shortlist are aware that some current diamond journals could change their status to non-diamond by charging article processing fees at a later stage. Since the journal record is not always updated by the publishers, we strongly recommend the users double-check the latest open access status directly on the journal's homepage (journal URLs are provided in the Excel file). The same applies for Scopus and WOS indexations.

Procedia computer science CiteScore 2024-2025 - ResearchHelpDesk - Launched in 2009, Procedia Computer Science is an electronic product focusing entirely on publishing high quality conference proceedings. Procedia Computer Science enables fast dissemination so conference delegates can publish their papers in a dedicated online issue on ScienceDirect, which is then made freely available worldwide. Conference proceedings are accepted for publication in Procedia Computer Science based on quality and are therefore required to meet certain criteria, including quality of the conference, relevance to an international audience and covering highly cited or timely topics. Procedia Computer Science will cover proceedings in all topics of Computer Science with the exception of certain workshops in Theoretical Computer Science, as our Electronic Notes in Theoretical Computer Science http://www.elsevier.com/locate/entcs are the primary outlet for these papers. The journal is indexed in Scopus, the largest abstract and citation database of peer-reviewed literature. Copyright information For authors publishing in Procedia Computer Science, accepted manuscript will be governed by CC BY-NC-ND. For further details see our copyright information. What does Procedia Computer Science offer authors and conferences organizers? Procedia Computer Science offers a single, highly recognized platform where conference papers can be hosted and accessed by millions of researchers. Authors then know where to go to keep abreast of the latest developments in their field, and get maximum exposure for their own work. All proceedings appear online, on Science Direct, within 8 weeks of acceptance of the final manuscripts via the conference organizer and are freely available to all users. To ensure discoverability and citability the final online papers are individually metadated, XML versions are optimized for search engines, references are linked, and DOI (Digital Object Identifier) numbers are added. Why should conference organizers choose Procedia Computer Science? Unlike regular printed conference publications, there is no practical limit to the amount of papers a Procedia Computer Science issue can contain and pricing is affordable, clear and transparent, offering organizers a state of the art platform for their conference in a cost effective and sustainable manner. Procedia Computer Science offers immediate access for all, with papers online within 8 weeks of acceptance, and free access providing maximum exposure for individual papers and the related conference. Conference delegates can thus access the papers from anywhere on the web during and post conference. Organizers are credited on the actual issue and are fully responsible for quality control, the review process and the content of individual conference papers. To assist conference organizers in the publication process templates (both Latex and Word) are provided. What is the process for submitting conference proceedings to Procedia Computer Science? Proposals should include a synopsis of why such a Procedia Computer Science issue will have an impact on its community, the (sub) fields covered, and an outline of the related conference (or conferences / satellite events) with links to the conference website and pervious proceedings where possible. Please include a tentative list of the steering committee / program committee, a short description of the conference peer review standards (acceptance rate, reviewer selection, etc) as well as estimates of number of conference delegates and number of papers to be accepted for publication. Proposals should be prepared using the template here Please note that we do not accept proposals from individual authors for Procedia titles. What are the costs associated with Procedia Computer Science? There is an agreed fee, based on the size of the proceedings, which includes online publication on ScienceDirect and free access after acceptance. In addition to the online version there is the possibility to purchase paper copies, CD-ROMs and USB sticks. Moreover, interactive media possibilities such as webcasts and web seminars can be acquired for extra exposure both before and after the conference. Can Procedia Computer Science be sponsored? We are open to discussing sponsoring possibilities at all times. Sponsors can include funding bodies, government agencies and/or industry. Benefits to sponsors include visibility amongst a scientific audience and the opportunity to communicate messages via a peer-reviewed platform. Benefits to authors and conference organizers are the further dissemination of material to an international audience and even more reduced costs to the overall conference budget. What more can Elsevier do to help computer science conference organizers? We are open to discuss even further collaboration, including but not limited to providing global organizational and administrative services, assisting with the setup of new multidisciplinary meetings. Contact your Elsevier Computer Science Publisher for more information. Abstracting and Indexing Conference Proceedings Citation Index Scopus

To generate this bibliographic collection, we searched for the terms (ecolog* AND stability) or (ecolog* AND resilience) in Clarivate Analytics Web of Science in the period from 1955 to 16th of October 2019. We selected the ecological journals Ecology, American Naturalist, Oikos, Ecology Letters, Journal of Ecology, Trends in Ecology & Evolution, Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment, Ecology and Society and Journal of Animal Ecology, complemented with the multidisciplinary journals Nature, Science and Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America (PNAS). In total, we retrieved title, author lists, journal, year of publishing, keywords, text and references of 2028 unique articles

The dataset contains two samples of "White List" journals for December 2024 and February 2025. The data was collected based on API queries to OpenAlex and parsing the JSON file from the RCNI website where the "White List" is located. The following properties of "White List" journal objects were considered: ISSN, Title, journal level in the "White List", date accepted, journal ID in OpenAlex, database indexing information (Web of Science, Scopus, DOAJ), publisher and country of publishing, total citations, open access data, leading thematic topic, leading thematic field, authors from which countries published in the journal and the number of publications (if Russian authors were among them, an additional request was made for the number of publications in the journal with Russian authors by year).

These are SQLite database files that can be opened in DB Browser for SQLite.

The Expanded Journal List (EJL) contains over 39,000 sources in a list that combines the sources from Journal Citation Report (Web of Science) SCImago Journal Rank (Scopus) and CWTS CORE (OpenAlex).