Collection of data journal characteristics (ISSN, Journal title, Publisher, URL, and Data Journal type)

The collection is based on a collection of data journal characteristics within research in the project re3data COREF. This initial dataset has been published together with a comprehensive data documentation: Kindling & Strecker (2022) List of data journals. Zenodo. DOI: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.7082126.

The collection is shared to be supplemented and continued by the community.

Characteristics

ISSN: ISSN of the data journal (manually added)

journal_title: title of the data journal (retrieved from Crossref on 2022-10-11 for the initial dataset)

publisher: Publisher of the data journal (retrieved from Crossref on 2022-10-11 and harmonized for the initial dataset)

URL: URL of the journal homepage (manually added)

data_journal_type: Type of the data journal (manually added); either pure (journal has a strong focus on publishing data papers) or mixed (journal also publishes other publication types)

Sources

A list of publications on data journals is curated in Zotero: https://www.zotero.org/groups/2316312/oabb/collections/MVSCZTBL