Open Editors collects data about scholarly journals' editors and editorial board members.
 
The dataset currently comprises:
594.580
Editors
7.352
Journals
26
Publishers

You can get the whole dataset in two *.csv-files at GitHub.

We also recommend Open Editors Plus with an expanded dataset and interactive dashboards!

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For advanced queries, use AND, OR, NOT, (brackets OR parentheses), "quotation marks".
  Note that there may be difficulties with special characters. Please use the CSV-files at GitHub for deeper analyses.
 
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Name Affiliation Role Journal Publisher ISSN Date
Erik Schleef, PhD University of Salzburg Department of English and Am … Editorial Board AmpersandElsevier2215-0390 2022-01-06
J. Blechert, PhD Paris Lodron University of Salzburg, Salzburg, Austria Executive Editors AppetiteElsevier0195-6663 2022-01-06
Robert Marschallinger, PhD Paris Lodron University of Salzburg, Salzburg, Austria Associate Editors Applied Computing and GeosciencesElsevier2590-1974 2022-01-06
F. Lahnsteiner Paris Lodron University of Salzburg, Salzburg, Austria Editorial Advisory Board AquacultureElsevier0044-8486 2022-01-06
Laurence Cole University of Salzburg, Austria Editorial Board Austrian History YearbookCambridge University Press 2022-02-15
Manfred J.Sippl University of Salzburg, Salzburg, Austria Editorial Board Bioinformatics and Biology InsightsSAGE1177-9322 2022-01-04
Gabriele Spilker University of Salzburg, Austria Editorial Board British Journal of Political ScienceCambridge University Press 2022-02-15
Silja Wessler University of Salzburg, Austria Cell Communication and SignalingBioMedCentral 2022-01-20
Josef Perner Paris Lodron University of Salzburg Editors Emeriti CognitionElsevier0010-0277 2022-01-06
Dr. Joerg Zumbach, PhD Paris Lodron University of Salzburg, Salzburg, Austria Scientific Board Computers in Human BehaviorElsevier0747-5632 2022-01-06
T. Blaschke, PhD Paris Lodron University of Salzburg, Salzburg, Austria Editorial Board Ecological IndicatorsElsevier1470-160X 2022-01-06
Professor Wolfgang Trutschnig Paris Lodron University of Salzburg, Salzburg, Austria Co-editors Econometrics and StatisticsElsevier2452-3062 2022-01-06
Laurence Cole University of Salzburg, Austria Editorial Panel European History QuarterlySAGE0265-6914 2022-01-04
Ursula Maier-Rabler University of Salzburg, Austria Editorial Board European Journal of CommunicationSAGE0267-3231 2022-01-04
Sabine Agatha Paris Lodron University of Salzburg, Salzburg, Austria Editorial Board European Journal of ProtistologyElsevier0932-4739 2022-01-06
Professor Andreas Dürr University of Salzburg, Austria Editorial Board European Political Science ReviewCambridge University Press 2022-02-15
Stefan Dötterl Paris Lodron University of Salzburg, Salzburg, Austria Editorial Board FloraElsevier0367-2530 2022-01-06
Nathan Weisz University of Salzburg; Salzburg, Austria Guest Associate Editor Frontiers in in Aging NeuroscienceFrontiers1663-4365 2022-01-11
Fatima Ferreira University of Salzburg; Salzburg, Austria Associate Editor Frontiers in in AllergyFrontiers2673-6101 2022-01-11
Gabriele Gadermaier University of Salzburg; Salzburg, Austria Associate Editor Frontiers in in AllergyFrontiers2673-6101 2022-01-11
Lorenz Aglas Department of Biosciences, Faculty of Natural Scien … Review Editor Frontiers in in AllergyFrontiers2673-6101 2022-01-11
Hans Brandstetter University of Salzburg; Salzburg, Austria Review Editor Frontiers in in AllergyFrontiers2673-6101 2022-01-11
Nikolaus Fortelny University of Salzburg; Salzburg, Austria Review Editor Frontiers in in BioinformaticsFrontiers2673-7647 2022-01-11
Toralf Neuling University of Salzburg; Salzburg, Austria Guest Associate Editor Frontiers in in Cellular NeuroscienceFrontiers1662-5102 2022-01-20
Nathan Weisz University of Salzburg; Salzburg, Austria Guest Associate Editor Frontiers in in Cellular NeuroscienceFrontiers1662-5102 2022-01-20
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Data and Methods

Open Editors collects publicly available information about the editors and editorial boards of scholarly journals through a technique called webscraping, whereby a script accesses the websites of the publishers to extract the relevant information. The codes (programmed in Python; earlier versions in R) are available at GitHub.

Currently, only journals of the following 26 publishers were taken into account:

For more details, please see the paper which outlines the method and data sample with greater precision. It also discusses issues of diversity and intersectionality; of linking the dataset with PIDs (persistent identifiers) such as ORCID and ROR; and of current limitations regarding the scope and coverage of the data.

A data dump from March 2026 is available as a CSV file on at Zenodo. Earlier versions (2021 and 2022) are available as two CSV-files of ca. 128 MB on GitHub (in the "Output"-folder and the 2022-subfolder).

Latest Updates

Feel Free to Re-Use the Data!

Open Editors is distributed under a Creative Commons-license (CC0). You can re-use the dataset or its codes freely. If you wish to attribute the original data-collection to Open Editors, you could perhaps include the following reference:

Nishikawa-Pacher, Andreas, Tamara Heck and Kerstin Schoch (2022), "Open Editors: A Dataset of Scholarly Journals’ Editorial Board Positions", Research Evaluation, DOI: 10.1093/reseval/rvac037.

Supported by ...

This project was made possible through a fellowship ("Freies Wissen") from Wikimedia Deutschland in 2020/21.

In addition, my other side-project OOIR (the Observatory of International Research) kindly provides the webspace for this project. :-)

In 2024, the City of Vienna (Stadt Wien Kultur) supported the re-scraping of the datasets (for the 2026 version).

Contact

You can contact me (Andreas Pacher) via [email protected].