This readme_v2.txt file was generated on 2020/06/25 by Francisco Rubio ------------------- GENERAL INFORMATION ------------------- Title of Dataset: Data articles in journals Author Information: Principal Investigator: Balsa-Sánchez, Carlota. Universidade da Coruña. email: carlota.balsa@udc.es. ORCID: 0000-0002-1695-2263 Associate or Co-investigator: Rubio, Francisco. Universitat Politècnia de València. email: fcorumon@bib.upv.es. ORCID: 0000-0003-4981-6740 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 56 academic journals that publish data papers and software papers. Keywords: Datasets; Data journals; Data papers; Data articles; Software papers; Software articles; Code; Journal list; FAIR principles -------------------------- SHARING/ACCESS INFORMATION -------------------------- Open Access to data: Open Licenses/restrictions placed on the data, or limitations of reuse: Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC-BY) -------------------- DATA & FILE OVERVIEW -------------------- File list: - data_articles_journal_list_v2.xlsx: full list of academic journals in which data papers or/and software papers could be published - data_articles_journal_list_v2.csv: full list of 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) Total size: 32 KB -------------------------- METHODOLOGICAL INFORMATION -------------------------- Description of methods used for collection/generation of data: several sources were used to elaborate the dataset: - Akers, K. (2014, May 9). A Growing List of Data Journals. Data@MLibrary. https://is.gd/IkJeqy - ANDS. (2020). Data and journals. ANDS. https://is.gd/3SZvNb - Callaghan, S. (2013, January 22). A list of Data Journals (in no particular order. Trac. https://is.gd/TFqek5 - Candela, L., Castelli, D., Manghi, P., & Tani, A. (2015). Data journals: A survey. Journal of the Association for Information Science and Technology, 66(9), 1747-1762. https://doi.org/10.1002/asi.23358 - Dedieu, L. (2015). How to publish a data paper,Comment publier un data paper. FOSTER facilitate open science training for european research. https://www.fosteropenscience.eu/content/how-publish-data-paper - DOAJ. (2020). Directory of Open Access Journals. https://doaj.org - Finnish Committee for Research Data. (2020). Data Journal Directory—Data-asioiden kansalliskomitea. https://www.fcrd.fi/data-journal-directory/ - Forschungsdaten.org. (2020). Data Journals. https://www.forschungsdaten.org/index.php/Data_Journals - García-García, A., López-Borrull, A., & Peset, F. (2015). Data journals: Eclosión de nuevas revistas especializadas en datos. El Profesional de la Información, 24(6), 845-854. https://doi.org/10.3145/epi.2015.nov.17 - Gorgolewski, K., Margulies, D. S., & Milham, M. P. (2013). Making Data Sharing Count: A Publication-Based Solution. Frontiers in Neuroscience, 7. https://doi.org/10.3389/fnins.2013.00009 - PentSoft. (2020). Browse Journals. https://is.gd/fcMLUk - Pérez-Luque, A. J., & Ros-Candeira, A. (2019). Compartiendo datos en Ecología: Cómo añadir más valor a los datos. Revista Ecosistemas, 28(3), 150-159-159. https://doi.org/10.7818/re.2014.28-3.00 - Scimago Journal & Country Rank (2020). https://www.scimagojr.com/ - Ulrichsweb: Global serials directory. (2020). https://ulrichsweb.serialssolutions.com - Web of Science. Master Journal List. (2020). https://mjl.clarivate.com Methods for processing the data: - Ulrichsweb was used to collect normalized title, ISSN, URL, subjects, start year and publisher. Using the ISSN and Title several searches were made in: o DOAJ: it was used to know if the journal was indexed o Master Journal List of Web of Science: it was used to know if the journal was indexed in Web of Science Core Collections o Scimago Journal an Country Rank: it was used to know in the last year the best quartile - The URLs were checked and updated (if necessary) - A normalization process was made in some variables: o Publishers o Document Type Software- or Instrument-specific information needed to interpret the data, including software and hardware version numbers: Microsoft Excel or other software that works with tabular data -------------------------- DATA-SPECIFIC INFORMATION -------------------------- Number of variables: 10 Number of cases/rows: 56 Variable list, defining any abbreviations, units of measure, codes or symbols used: - Title - ISSN - URL - Subject: subjects that Ulirchsweb assigns to the journal - Start year: year of the first issue of the journal - Publisher - DOAJ: values YES / NO, it depends on if the journal is indexed in the Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ) - WOS: values YES / NO, it depends on if the journal is indexed in Web of Science Core Collections - SJR: values Q1 / Q2 / Q3 / Q4 / Not indexed, it depends on the best quartile in 2019 of the journal in Scimago Journal & Country Rank - Document type: this is the field where the type of contributions that each journal admits is shown. The values are based on journal website description and document type in Web of Science (if available). The types of documents that have been used are: o Data papers o Research papers: this term includes contributions to a journal other than data papers or software papers, such as articles, comments, letters, reviews, book reviews, etc. o Software papers: this term includes source code, software reviews, etc. Specialized formats or other abbreviations used: - DOAJ: Directory of Open Access Journals - WOS: Web of Science - SRJ: Scimago Journal & Country Rank