DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.10386753
title: Academic publishing requires linguistically inclusive policies

description: Curated databases of the project "Academic publishing requires linguistically inclusive policies." 


"CuratedDatabase_Guidelines.txt" and "CuratedDatabase_Survey.txt" contain information about the linguistic policies of journals in biological sciences. Their information was collected from author guidelines and surveys to editors-in-chief, respectively. Additional information from the journal was extracted from the 2020 Journal Citation Reports (JCR).


Description, data type, and scoring options of the databases' fields (columns)


"CuratedDatabase_Guidelines.txt"'



	
Collaborator: Anonymised identifier of collaborator who collected the information. Categorical.
	
SurveyAnswer: Whether the editor-in-chief of the editor accepted the request to complete the survey. Categorical. YES, NO.
	
Journal_JCR: Anonymised identifier of the journal name. Text.
	
ImpactFactor_JCR: Impact Factor of the journal as per JCR. Numeric.
	
OA_JCR: Percentage of Golden Open Access articles as per JCR. Numeric.
	
Discipline_JCR: Discipline of the journal as per JCR. Categorical.
	
CountryPublication_JCR: Country or region of publication of the journal as per JCR. Categorical.
	
LanguageCountry: Language of the country where the journal is published. Categorical. English, Non-English.
	
IssuesPerYear_JCR: Regularity as number of issues published by year as per JCR. Numeric.
	
PublisherType: Business model of the journal's publisher. Categorical. Profit, Non-profit.
	
SocietyJournal: Whether the journal is published on behalf of a scientific society. Categorical. 0 for NO, 1 for YES.
	
Language: Languages in which the journal publish content. Text.
	
RegionalGlobal: Whether the journal explicitly target to a global or regional audience. Categorical. Global, Regional.
	
LinguisticDiversityEditors: Proportion of editors that are based in countries where English is not predominantly spoken. Numeric.
	
EnglishEditingService: Type of English editing services that the journal provides to authors. Categorical. 0 for NONE, 1 for COMMERCIAL, 2 for FREE.
	
AdditionalSupport: Additional support that journals offer to authors. Text.
	
AdditionalLanguageGuidelines: Whether the author guidelines are available in languages other than English. Categorical. 0 for ONLY ENGLISH, 1 for ADDITIONAL LANGUAGES IN SOME SECTIONS, 2 for ADDITIONAL LANGUAGES.
	
LanguageGuidelines: If apply, languages in which the author guidelines are available.
	
LinguisticInclusivityStatement: Whether the journal clearly states that a paper will not be rejected solely by the perceived quality of English. Categorical. NO, YES.
	
AdditionalLanguageManuscripts: Whether the journal publish entire manuscripts in languages other than English. Categorical. 0 for NO, 1 for YES.
	
AdditionalLanguageAbstract: Whether the journal publish abstracts in languages other than English. Categorical. 0 for NO, 1 for YES.
	
WhereSecondAbstract: If apply, the format in which the journal publish abstracts in languages other than English. Categorical.
	
ProofReadingAL: If apply, whether the non-English content is proofread. Categorical. 
	
ReferencesAdditionalLanguage: Whether the journal publish references in languages other than English. Categorical. 0 for PROHIBITED/NO-MENTION, 1 for ALLOWED, 2 for ENCOURAGED.
	
AutomaticTranslationTools: Whether the journal's website implement machine translation tools to read the manuscripts in languages other than English. 0 for NO, 1 for YES.



"CuratedDatabase_Survey.txt"



	
Journal_JCR: Anonymised identifier of the journal name. Text.
	
ImpactFactor_JCR: Impact Factor of the journal as per JCR. Numeric.
	
OA_JCR: Percentage of Golden Open Access articles as per JCR. Numeric.
	
SocietyJournal: Whether the journal is published on behalf of a scientific society. Categorical. 0 for NO, 1 for YES.
	
LinguisticDiversityEditors: Proportion of editors that are based in countries where English is not predominantly spoken. Numeric.
	
AdditionalLanguageManuscripts: Whether the journal publish entire manuscripts in languages other than English. Categorical. 0 for NO, 1 for YES.
	
EnglishEditingService: Type of English editing services that the journal provides to authors. Categorical. 0 for NONE, 1 for COMMERCIAL, 2 for FREE.
	
ReferencesAdditionalLanguage: Whether the journal publish references in languages other than English. Categorical. 0 for PROHIBITED/NO-MENTION, 1 for ALLOWED, 2 for ENCOURAGED.
	
InstructionsReviewers: Whether reviewers are instructed to avoid recommending the rejection manuscripts solely based on the perceived standard of English. 0 for NO, 1 for YES.
	
InstructionsEditors: Whether editors are instructed to avoid rejecting manuscripts solely based on the perceived standard of English. 0 for NO, 1 for YES.
	
YearStartLinguisticPolicies: For journals that publish content in languages other than English, the year in which those policies were implemented. Numeric. Values "1920" correspond to "Before 1920."
	
AdditionalLanguageAbstract: Whether the journal publish abstracts in languages other than English. Categorical. 0 for NO, 1 for YES.