Codes and Datasets for: 'The Largest Academic Publishers of Scholarly Journals: A Webscraping Approach'

This set comprises: "<strong>count_publishers*</strong>": four R codes ("count_publishers*") that draw from <em>DOAJ</em>, <em>Publons</em>, <em>Scopus </em>and <em>SherpaRomeo</em> to extract scholarly publishers and the journal counts assigned to each publisher; "<strong>data*</strong>": two underlying data samples (from <em>DOAJ </em>and <em>Scopus</em>) - the two other samples are accessed via webscraping; "<strong>harmonize*</strong>": one text-file and one R-code for harmonizing publisher names; "<strong>alljournals.xlsx</strong>": the resulting list of scholarly publishers ordered by the highest number of journal counts assigned to them.