Filename: ROAD_sample_check
Title: ROAD open access journals stratified sample data
License: CC0
Source data: ROAD Directory of open access scholarly resources
Date of download: 20201030
Source data location: https://road.issn.org/ (download was provided at request)
Sample: Random sample of 500 active journals
Stratification: By the DISCIPLINARY_GROUP variable that was created grouping disciplines in the 981_ UDCDATA_ category_name variable
Date of check/analysis: 20201215-20210224

Variables with description:
001_ ISSN - original data from ROAD database
022_ISSNS - original data from ROAD database
008/06_CURRENT STATUS - original data from ROAD database
008_07_10_START_YEAR - original data from ROAD database
008_11_16_ END_YEAR - original data from ROAD database
008_35_37_LANGUAGE - original data from ROAD database
041_LANGUAGE (2) - original data from ROAD database
044_COUNTRY - original data from ROAD database
082_DEWEY_FIRST - original data from ROAD database
222_KEY_TITLE - original data from ROAD database
245_TITLE - original data from ROAD database
260_IMPRINT_PUBLISHER - original data from ROAD database
510_INDEXATION - original data from ROAD database
510_INDEXATION_DOAJ  - data extracted from 510_INDEXATION
699_COUNTRY_NOT_ALWAYS_IDENTICAL_TO_044 - original data from ROAD database
710_OWNER_ISNI - original data from ROAD database
720_OWNER_ISNI - original data from ROAD database
951_ROAD_TYPE - original data from ROAD database
962_GEOGRAPHICAL_LOCATION - original data from ROAD database
968_WIKIDATA - original data from ROAD database
970_FATCAT - original data from ROAD database
981_UDCDATA_category_name - original data from ROAD database
RANDOM_NUMBER - random number used in sampling
RANDOM_SORT - random number used in sampling
STRATUM_COUNT - count of DISCIPLINARY_GROUP variable
DOAJ - binary TRUE/FALSE for DOAJ coverage
URL - current live website address of journal
MODEL_AGGREGATED - main journal model, grouping of the MODEL variable
MODEL - journal model
APC_CONVERTED_TO_USD - stated article processing charges converted using the Google currency conversion
APC_CONVERTED_TO_EURO - stated article processing charges converted using the Google currency conversion
DISCIPLINARY_GROUP - main disciplinary group, grouping disciplines in 981_ UDCDATA_ category_name variable