Replication Data for: Reporting of academic degrees in high-impact medical journals

We identified the hundred highest impact medical journals based on impact factor reported in the Journal Citation Reports published in 2018. Characteristics of each journal in regard to specialty, impact factor, primary journal focus, continent, and open access policy were obtained. Data were collected on the presence of academic degrees following author names in the title page by assessment of multiple original research articles from each journal. Approximately ten articles published in July 2018 and August 2019 were assessed for each journal. If there was any discrepancy between the print and the online version, the print version was use. There were no discrepancies within journals for the two time periods.