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## Results

Data about ca. **480.000** editorial positions at **6.090** journals from **17** publishers were found.
### Basic Data

In addition, the scripts scraped further data about **19.487** editorial positions at **752** journals from **5** predatory publishers.
Data about ca. **480.000** editorial positions at **6.090** journals from **17** publishers were found.

To see the results, see the `Output`-folder, or browse through the dataset at https://openeditors.ooir.org/.

In the `Output`-folder, the data from the 17 non-predatory publishers were split into two files to avoid documents of over 100 MB:
- `editors1.csv` contains editor data from APA, ASCE, Brill, CUP, Elsevier, Emerald, and Frontiers;
- `editors2.csv` contains editor data from Hindawi, IGI Global, Inderscience, John Benjamins, Karger, MDPI, Pleiades, PLOS, RSC, and SAGE.
- The same filenames with `*_ror.csv` additionally contain [ROR](https://ror.org/)-identifiers, while the ones with `*_ror_countries.csv` have yet another column with automatically extracted country names.
- `editors_predatory.journals.csv` contain the results from the 5 predatory publishers.

### Predatory Publishers

In addition, data about **19.487** editorial positions at **752** journals from **5** predatory publishers were found.

They are listed in `Output\editors_predatory.journals.csv`.

## Data Sample

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- Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC)
- SAGE

### Predatory Publishers

The five predatory publishers in the sample are:

- Allied Academies (seems to belong to OMICS)
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- SCIRP
- SciTechnol (seems to belong to OMICS)

### Journal URLs

The URLs to the journal websites (as visible in the `Data`-folder) stems from https://github.com/andreaspacher/academic-publishers.

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