Which journal characteristics are crucial for scientists when selecting journals for their publications? Results tables of an online survey

As part of the BMBF-funded project "B!SON - Bibliometric and Semantic Open Access Recommender Network", an online survey was conducted among scientists using SoSci Survey (Leiner, 2019). The aim of the survey was to determine the importance of various characteristics of scientific journals in the decision for a publication venue by scientists. The characteristics were determined by analysis of other recommender systems, literature research and discussion with scientists. The data published here are based on 884 completed questionnaires (only questionnaires in which at least 90% of the questions had been answered were included in the analysis).

In the questionnaire, a distinction was made between those characteristics that scientists would like to use to limit the selection of eligible journals from the outset (table "B!SON_Survey_Filter_Criteria_EN") and those that scientists need for their final decision from a list of recommended journals ("B!SON_Survey_Journal_Selection_EN"). For each journal property, the respondents could choose between the categories of a 5-point Likert scale: "not at all important - not very important - somewhat important - very important - extremely important". If the scientists were not able to evaluate a characteristic, they could also select "I can't say". 

In the two tables of results, the approval percentage and the rank based on it are listed for all journal properties queried in the respective part of the survey. The approval percentage is calculated from the percentage of people who rated the respective property as "very important" or "extremely important". Approval rate and rank are presented across all respondents (overall column), as well as within the 4 science disciplines by DFG (Natural Sciences, Engineering Sciences, Life Sciences, Humanities and Social Sciences) and the category "Other Sciences".

Both tables can be sorted by approval rate and rank per scientific discipline or across disciplines.

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A German version of the results tables is available under https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5412197.