Latin American and Caribbean journals indexed in Google Scholar Metrics

Dataset from a study aiming to analyze the coverage of Latin American and Caribbean journals in Google Scholar Metrics (GSM). Data from 8,205 journals from 24 countries of the region were downloaded from Latindex database. A Python script was used for automated title search and data extraction (titles, h5-index, h5-median, URLs) in GSM. For the journals not found, a manual search was carried out, with attempts by variations of the title. It was found 3,070 journals indexed in GSM, which corresponds to 37.42% of the Latindex list. The search was performed on the 2021 edition of GSM, which considers articles published between 2016 and 2020 and citations registered until July 2021. The number of articles published (productivity) in the h5-index period (2016-2020) in Scopus, Journal Citation Reports and SciELO of 1,242 journals was also identified. 

The present dataset is the result of this study, which is under peer-review in a scientific journal. 

The dataset comprises titles, h5-index; h5-median, URLs of 3,070 publications from Latin America and the Caribbean identified in Google Scholar Metrics, and the respective editorial information of the publications, as extracted from Latindex

The editorial information extracted from Latindex (country, research areas, subjects, periodicity, languages, access model, peer review) are in Spanish.