Open Editors 2.0
In 2021, Open Editors first scraped data about academic journal editors across dozens of publishers; a second round of scraping in 2022 found more than half a million data rows. These datasets are available at https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.4619374. Based on a new codebase (available at <a
In 2021, Open Editors first scraped data about academic journal editors across dozens of publishers; a second round of scraping in 2022 found more than half a million data rows. These datasets are available at https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.4619374.
Based on a new codebase (available at GitHub), this present dataset (from February and March 2026) comprises data about 377,678 journal editors across ca. 7,000 journals from 20 scientific publishers.
The variables are:
- editor_id: an internal identifier
- editor: the name of the editor or editorial board member
- affiliation_ror: standardized affiliation name based on a matching against the ROR API
- affiliation: raw affiliation string found on the journal website
- ror: the ROR identifier based on the ROR API matching
- role: the role of the editorial board member (such as Editor-in-Chief, Associate Editor, etc.)
- country: the country of the affiliation
- raw_text: the raw HTML string scraped
- first_seen_at: date of scraping
- journal: name of the journal
- url: the URL of the journal
- publisher: name of the publisher
- predatory: a binary code denoting whether the publisher is known as questionable (coded as 1) or not (coded as 0)
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Files are hosted on the source repository. Click download to access the full dataset.