Questionnaire data for DRYAD 2018 07 26

Data from questionnaires sent to authors of papers in the research domain of Ecology. The column header are mostly self-explanatory. They are: ResponseID: a serial number linking rows corresponding to multiple submissions of the same manuscript (MS). Note that some MSs were submitted repeatedly to the same journal. Invited MS: Was the manuscript invited by the journal for publication? Round start: A serial number for the round of submission of each manuscript, beginning with 1, and incrementing upwards. Round end: A serial number for the outcome of each submission round, beginning with 2 and incrementing upwards. Note that the final round of submission is given identifier 99. Journal start: To which journal was the MS submitted in this round? Journal end: To which journal was the MS next submitted? Note that this may be the same as Journal Start, if the manuscript was not rejected. If it was rejected, then it will (typically) differ. JIF start: What was the submission-year-specific impact factor of the starting journal? JIF end: What was the submission-year-specific impact factor of the ending journal? Year start: In what year was the submission made? Year end: In what year was the next submission made? Outcome: What was the outcome of the submission to the starting journal? cumulative n journals: To how many journals had this MS previously been submitted? n citations: How many citations were obtained by this article, once published? Note that N citations was current as of 16 August 2017.