Academic publishing requires linguistically inclusive policies

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.