Serbian researchers papers in Web of Science database in the period 2003-2021

This is dataset about Serbian papers published in journals indexed in Web of Science collections in the period 2003-2021<br> We used as "serbian" countries: Serbia, Serbia and Montenegro, Yugoslavia The terms Serbian researcher and Serbian paper used in this dataset are defined as follows:<br> Serbian researcher is a researcher affiliated with a Serbian institution,<br> Serbian paper is a paper with at least one Serbian researcher in the list of authors.<br> This means that a paper published by a researcher with non-Serbian nationality (i.e. German) working at a Serbian institution is taken into account in the analysis of Serbian papers described in this paper. Thomson Reuters’ Web of Science (WoS) database was used for data acquisition. We searched Serbian papers in two WoS collections - Science Citation Index Expanded (SCIE) and the Social Science Citation Index (SSCI). The search query executed over those collections on 18th of January, 2022.<br> CU=(%Serbia% OR %Serbia and Montenegro% OR %Yugoslavia%) AND PY=[2003-2021]<br> We also analyzed the number of articles of Serbian researchers published in journals with an unstable impact factor (IF), i.e. journals which didn’t have an IF before 2008, and had one in some subperiod of 2008-2015, i.e. lost their IF until 2015. The majority of those journals stopped being indexed in Web of Science as a ban for losing the quality or having predatory journal behavior. We found 143 such journals and their ISSNs by using the JCR (Journal citation reports in the period 2007 - 2015).<br> <br>本数据集针对2003年至2021年间发表于Web of Science（Web of Science, WoS）收录期刊的塞尔维亚关联论文进行整理。本数据集将以下国家认定为“塞尔维亚关联国家”：塞尔维亚、塞尔维亚与黑山、南斯拉夫。 本数据集对“塞尔维亚研究者”与“塞尔维亚论文”的定义如下： 塞尔维亚研究者：指隶属于塞尔维亚境内科研机构的研究者； 塞尔维亚论文：指作者列表中至少包含一名塞尔维亚研究者的论文。 这意味着，即便研究者不具备塞尔维亚国籍（例如德国籍），只要其供职于塞尔维亚境内科研机构，其发表的论文也会被纳入本数据集的塞尔维亚论文分析范畴。 本数据集通过汤森路透（Thomson Reuters）的Web of Science（WoS）数据库获取原始数据。我们在WoS的两个核心合集——科学引文索引扩展版（Science Citation Index Expanded, SCIE）与社会科学引文索引（Social Science Citation Index, SSCI）中检索塞尔维亚相关论文，本次检索于2022年1月18日在上述合集中执行，检索式为：CU=(%Serbia% OR %Serbia and Montenegro% OR %Yugoslavia%) AND PY=[2003-2021]。 此外，我们还分析了塞尔维亚研究者发表于影响因子（Impact Factor, IF）不稳定的期刊的论文数量：此类期刊在2008年前无影响因子，于2008-2015年的部分时段拥有影响因子，且在2015年前失去了影响因子。此类期刊大多因学术质量下滑或存在掠夺性出版行为，被Web of Science终止收录。我们通过2007-2015年的期刊引证报告（Journal Citation Reports, JCR）检索到143种此类期刊及其国际标准连续出版物编号（ISSN）。