Open Editors

Purpose

Webscraping data about scholarly journals' editors and editorial boards.

For methodical details and more information, see this preprint at SocArXiv.

Results

Data about 478.562 editorial positions at 6.090 journals from 17 publishers were found.

To see the results, search through the dataset at https://openeditors.ooir.org/, or download the files from the Output-folder.

In the Output-folder, the data was split into two files to avoid documents of over 100 MB:

• editors1.csv contains editor data from APA, ASCE, Brill, CUP, Elsevier, Emerald, and Frontiers;
• editors2.csv contains editor data from Hindawi, IGI Global, Inderscience, John Benjamins, Karger, MDPI, Pleiades, PLOS, RSC, and SAGE.

Data Sample

The current version contains data from journals pertaining to the following 17 publishers:

• American Psychological Association (APA)
• American Society of Chemical Engineers (ASCE)
• Brill
• Cambridge University Press (CUP)
• Elsevier
• Emerald
• Frontiers
• Hindawi
• IGI Global
• Inderscience
• John Benjamins
• Karger
• Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute (MDPI)
• Pleiades
• Public Library of Science (PLOS)
• Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC)
• SAGE

The URLs to the journal websites (as visible in the Data-folder) stems from https://github.com/andreaspacher/academic-publishers.

Related Projects

Jan Kamlah and Philipp Zumstein have scraped editors from Springer, Wiley & Elsevier with Python at https://github.com/JKamlah/scrape-editorial-board.