Latin American and Caribbean journals indexed in Google Scholar Metrics

Dataset from a study aiming to analyze the coverage of Latin American and Caribbean journals in Google Scholar Metrics (GSM). Data from 8,205 journals from 24 countries of the region were downloaded from Latindex database. A Python script was used for automated title search and data extraction (titles, h5-index, h5-median, URLs) in GSM. For the journals not found, a manual search was carried out, with attempts by variations of the title. It was found 3,070 journals indexed in GSM, which corresponds to 37.42% of the Latindex list. The search was performed on the 2021 edition of GSM, which considers articles published between 2016 and 2020 and citations registered until July 2021. The number of all types of documents published (productivity) in the h5-index period (2016-2020) in Scopus, Journal Citation Reports, and SciELO of 1,314 journals was also identified. The present dataset is the result of this study, which is under peer-review in a scientific journal. The dataset comprises titles, h5-index; h5-median, URLs of 3,070 publications from Latin America and the Caribbean identified in Google Scholar Metrics, and the respective editorial information of the publications was extracted from Latindex The original language of the content was kept, mainly Spanish in the case of editorial data from Latindex. The columns descriptors are also shown in English. The productivity data refer to the number of all types of documents published by the journals in the period 2016-2020. Data were extracted from the InCities Journal Citation Reports, Scopus, and SciELO Citation Index (Web of Science database). In this version 2, only the productivity data were changed, covering a larger number of journals (1,314) and including all types of documents. Other data are the same as in the first version (https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5572873). <pre> </pre>

本数据集源自一项旨在分析谷歌学术指标（Google Scholar Metrics, GSM）对拉丁美洲及加勒比地区期刊收录情况的研究。研究从Latindex数据库下载了该地区24个国家的8,205种期刊的相关数据；使用Python脚本自动化检索谷歌学术指标中的期刊标题并提取相关数据（包括期刊标题、h5指数（h5-index）、h5中位数（h5-median）及网址）；针对未检索到的期刊，采用期刊标题变体进行手动检索。最终共检索到3,070种被谷歌学术指标收录的期刊，占Latindex数据库收录列表的37.42%。本次检索基于2021版谷歌学术指标，该版本统计的是2016至2020年发表的论文及截至2021年7月的引用数据。此外，研究还识别了其中1,314种期刊在Scopus、期刊引证报告（Journal Citation Reports, JCR）及SciELO数据库中2016-2020年（即h5指数统计周期）内发表的各类文献总量（即产出量）。本数据集即为本项研究的成果，目前已提交至某学术期刊待同行评审。数据集包含从谷歌学术指标中检索到的3,070种拉丁美洲及加勒比地区期刊的标题、h5指数、h5中位数及网址，并从Latindex数据库提取了这些期刊的相关编辑信息；编辑数据的原始语言以西班牙语为主，保留了原始语种。数据集的列描述采用英文。其中的产出量数据指各期刊在2016-2020年期间发表的各类文献总量，数据提取自InCities期刊引证报告、Scopus及SciELO引文索引（Web of Science旗下数据库）。本数据集为第2版，仅更新了产出量相关数据：扩充了期刊样本量至1,314种，并涵盖了所有类型的文献；其余数据与第1版（https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5572873）保持一致。<pre> </pre>