DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.7828391
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). <strong>Description, data type, and scoring options of the databases' fields (columns)</strong> "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.