An Empirical Investigation of Open Access Scholarly Publishing Trends in Social Sciences at High-Ranked Central Universities of India. Research data.xlsx

This study aims to analyze the adoption of Open Access (OA) publishing in social sciences within central universities in India, focusing on various aspects such as the growth of OA literature, the utilization of different OA routes, and collaboration patterns in OA publications.Ten central universities were selected based on their rankings in the National Institute Ranking Framework (NIRF) 2022. Data on OA publishing in social sciences were collected from the Social Science Citation Index of the Web of Science database using the advanced search query "(CU=India OR AD=India) AND PY=(2003-2022) NOT PY=(2023)". Data analysis was conducted using MS Excel (v16.0), BibExcel (version - 2017), Biblioshiny (version 4.1.2), and Google Open Refine (version 3.7).