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add info about predaotry publishers to README
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## Results
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Data about **478.512** editorial positions at **6.090** journals from **17** publishers were found.
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Data about ca. **480.000** editorial positions at **6.090** journals from **17** publishers were found.
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To see the results, search through the dataset at https://openeditors.ooir.org/, or download the files from the `Output`-folder.
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In addition, the scripts scraped further data about **19.487** editorial positions at **752** journals from **5** predatory publishers.
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In the `Output`-folder, the data was split into two files to avoid documents of over 100 MB:
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To see the results, see the `Output`-folder, or browse through the dataset at https://openeditors.ooir.org/.
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In the `Output`-folder, the data from the 17 non-predatory publishers were split into two files to avoid documents of over 100 MB:
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- `editors1.csv` contains editor data from APA, ASCE, Brill, CUP, Elsevier, Emerald, and Frontiers;
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- `editors2.csv` contains editor data from Hindawi, IGI Global, Inderscience, John Benjamins, Karger, MDPI, Pleiades, PLOS, RSC, and SAGE.
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- The same filenames with `*_ror.csv` additionally contain [ROR](https://ror.org/)-identifiers, while the ones with `*_ror_countries.csv` have yet another column with automatically extracted country names.
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- `editors_predatory.journals.csv` contain the results from the 5 predatory publishers.
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## Data Sample
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The current version contains data from journals pertaining to the following 17 publishers:
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The current version contains data from journals pertaining to the following 17 (non-predatory) publishers:
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- American Psychological Association (APA)
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- American Society of Chemical Engineers (ASCE)
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- Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC)
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- SAGE
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The five predatory publishers in the sample are:
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- Allied Academies (seems to belong to OMICS)
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- iMedPub (seems to belong to OMICS)
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- Longdom (seems to belong to OMICS)
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- SCIRP
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- SciTechnol (seems to belong to OMICS)
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The URLs to the journal websites (as visible in the `Data`-folder) stems from https://github.com/andreaspacher/academic-publishers.
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