Factors Affecting African Journals Visibility Data Archive

The file contains the status of African journals indexing on Google Scholar and Scopus. The journals are hosted in a major journal repository in Africa(Sabinet journal repository) and a major journal platform for African journals (African Journal Online, AJOL). There are also factors affecting the journal indexing on Google Scholar and Scopus. The factors affecting journal visibility highlighted include journals' open access status, journals’ presence on the International Standard Serial Number (ISSN), journals’ publisher membership of the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE), journals’ hosting on the International Network for Advancing Science and Policy (INASP) journal online, geographic location of the journals’ publisher.本数据集收录了已在谷歌学术（Google Scholar）与斯高帕斯数据库（Scopus）完成索引的非洲期刊相关状态信息。本次纳入统计的期刊均托管于非洲本土两大主流期刊服务载体：其一为萨比内特期刊库（Sabinet journal repository），其二为面向非洲期刊的专属主流平台——非洲期刊在线（African Journal Online, AJOL）。此外，本数据集还涵盖了影响上述期刊在谷歌学术与斯高帕斯数据库完成索引的各类因素。本次重点梳理的影响期刊曝光度的因素包括：期刊的开放获取状态、期刊是否持有国际标准连续出版物编号（International Standard Serial Number, ISSN）、期刊出版机构是否加入出版伦理委员会（Committee on Publication Ethics, COPE）、期刊是否托管于国际科学与政策促进网络（International Network for Advancing Science and Policy, INASP）在线期刊平台，以及期刊出版机构的地理位置。