Improvement of editorial quality of journals indexed in DOAJ

In 2013, Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ) completely changed the inclusion criteria and journal evaluation process, starting to remove journals that not comply with these criteria. The present dataset contains 12.577 journals included in DOAJ since the launch of the Directory in 2002 until May 15th, 2016 that was examined and enriched with other data, in order to examinatethe results of the new process and its capability to improve the quality of the directory and the reliability of the contained information.

2013年，开放获取期刊目录（Directory of Open Access Journals，DOAJ）全面更新了其期刊收录标准与评审流程，并开始清退不符合新标准的期刊。本数据集涵盖自2002年该目录创立至2016年5月15日期间被DOAJ收录的12577种期刊，经核查并补充多源关联数据后，可用于评估新评审流程的实施效果，以及其在提升目录整体质量与收录信息可靠性方面的能力。