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.


Search in the Dataset

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.
 
Showing results 1 to 4 (out of a total 4 results found). | Download as CSV | See as JSON
Name Affiliation Role Journal Publisher ISSN Date
Didier Raoult, MD, PhD Marseille, France Former Editors-in-Chief Clinical Microbiology and Infection Elsevier 1198-743X 2022-01-06
Camille MC Raoult Martin Luther University of Halle-Wittenberg; Halle, Germany Review Editor Frontiers in in Veterinary Science Frontiers 2297-1769 2022-02-03
D. Raoult, MD, PhD Marseille, France Editorial Board Microbial Pathogenesis Elsevier 0882-4010 2022-01-06
D. Raoult, MD, PhD IHU Mediterranean Infection - Infectious Disease an … Editorial Board Ticks and Tick-borne Diseases Elsevier 1877-959X 2022-01-06

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 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.

The whole data dump – two CSV-files of ca. 128 MB – is available at GitHub (in the "Output"-folder and the 2022-subfolder).


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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.

If you use the dataset, please let us know (via e-mail) so that we can add a link to your work here!


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. :-)


Contact

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