Academic publishing requires linguistically inclusive policies

Curated databases of the project "Academic publishing requires linguistically inclusive policies." 

"CuratedDatabase_Guidelines.txt" and "CuratedDatabase_Survey.txt" contain information about the linguistic policies of journals in biological sciences. Their information was collected from author guidelines and surveys to editors-in-chief, respectively. Additional information from the journal was extracted from the 2020 Journal Citation Reports (JCR).

Description, data type, and scoring options of the databases' fields (columns)

"CuratedDatabase_Guidelines.txt"'

• Collaborator: Anonymised identifier of collaborator who collected the information. Categorical.
• SurveyAnswer: Whether the editor-in-chief of the editor accepted the request to complete the survey. Categorical. YES, NO.
• Journal_JCR: Anonymised identifier of the journal name. Text.
• ImpactFactor_JCR: Impact Factor of the journal as per JCR. Numeric.
• OA_JCR: Percentage of Golden Open Access articles as per JCR. Numeric.
• Discipline_JCR: Discipline of the journal as per JCR. Categorical.
• CountryPublication_JCR: Country or region of publication of the journal as per JCR. Categorical.
• LanguageCountry: Language of the country where the journal is published. Categorical. English, Non-English.
• IssuesPerYear_JCR: Regularity as number of issues published by year as per JCR. Numeric.
• PublisherType: Business model of the journal's publisher. Categorical. Profit, Non-profit.
• SocietyJournal: Whether the journal is published on behalf of a scientific society. Categorical. 0 for NO, 1 for YES.
• Language: Languages in which the journal publish content. Text.
• RegionalGlobal: Whether the journal explicitly target to a global or regional audience. Categorical. Global, Regional.
• LinguisticDiversityEditors: Proportion of editors that are based in countries where English is not predominantly spoken. Numeric.
• EnglishEditingService: Type of English editing services that the journal provides to authors. Categorical. 0 for NONE, 1 for COMMERCIAL, 2 for FREE.
• AdditionalSupport: Additional support that journals offer to authors. Text.
• AdditionalLanguageGuidelines: Whether the author guidelines are available in languages other than English. Categorical. 0 for ONLY ENGLISH, 1 for ADDITIONAL LANGUAGES IN SOME SECTIONS, 2 for ADDITIONAL LANGUAGES.
• LanguageGuidelines: If apply, languages in which the author guidelines are available.
• LinguisticInclusivityStatement: Whether the journal clearly states that a paper will not be rejected solely by the perceived quality of English. Categorical. NO, YES.
• AdditionalLanguageManuscripts: Whether the journal publish entire manuscripts in languages other than English. Categorical. 0 for NO, 1 for YES.
• AdditionalLanguageAbstract: Whether the journal publish abstracts in languages other than English. Categorical. 0 for NO, 1 for YES.
• WhereSecondAbstract: If apply, the format in which the journal publish abstracts in languages other than English. Categorical.
• ProofReadingAL: If apply, whether the non-English content is proofread. Categorical. 
• ReferencesAdditionalLanguage: Whether the journal publish references in languages other than English. Categorical. 0 for PROHIBITED/NO-MENTION, 1 for ALLOWED, 2 for ENCOURAGED.
• AutomaticTranslationTools: Whether the journal's website implement machine translation tools to read the manuscripts in languages other than English. 0 for NO, 1 for YES.

"CuratedDatabase_Survey.txt"

• Journal_JCR: Anonymised identifier of the journal name. Text.
• ImpactFactor_JCR: Impact Factor of the journal as per JCR. Numeric.
• OA_JCR: Percentage of Golden Open Access articles as per JCR. Numeric.
• SocietyJournal: Whether the journal is published on behalf of a scientific society. Categorical. 0 for NO, 1 for YES.
• LinguisticDiversityEditors: Proportion of editors that are based in countries where English is not predominantly spoken. Numeric.
• AdditionalLanguageManuscripts: Whether the journal publish entire manuscripts in languages other than English. Categorical. 0 for NO, 1 for YES.
• EnglishEditingService: Type of English editing services that the journal provides to authors. Categorical. 0 for NONE, 1 for COMMERCIAL, 2 for FREE.
• ReferencesAdditionalLanguage: Whether the journal publish references in languages other than English. Categorical. 0 for PROHIBITED/NO-MENTION, 1 for ALLOWED, 2 for ENCOURAGED.
• InstructionsReviewers: Whether reviewers are instructed to avoid recommending the rejection manuscripts solely based on the perceived standard of English. 0 for NO, 1 for YES.
• InstructionsEditors: Whether editors are instructed to avoid rejecting manuscripts solely based on the perceived standard of English. 0 for NO, 1 for YES.
• YearStartLinguisticPolicies: For journals that publish content in languages other than English, the year in which those policies were implemented. Numeric. Values "1920" correspond to "Before 1920."
• AdditionalLanguageAbstract: Whether the journal publish abstracts in languages other than English. Categorical. 0 for NO, 1 for YES.