psjournals

Description

This is an R data package on political science journals, with article types as the units of observation. It includes an R Shiny app designed to filter the data, making it easier to explore journals and their article types for manuscript submission.

The dataset was last fully updated in November 2024.

The package is based on a comprehensive, though not exhaustive, list of political science journals. Additionally, the dataset may include some journals that are not exclusively within the field of political science. While every effort has been made to ensure accuracy, some data points may be inaccurate and may become outdated over time. For the most up-to-date information, please refer to individual journal websites.

Installation

# install
devtools::install_github("resulumit/psjournals")

# load
library(psjournals)

# view
View(psjournals)

Application

An application of the package is live at https://resulumit.shinyapps.io/psjournals.

Variables

id: integer — id number of the journal

journal: character — name of the journal¹

ifactor: integer — The Impact Factor of the journal²

h5_index: integer — Google Scholar's H5 Index of the journal

h5_median: integer — Google Scholar's H5 Index of the journal

since: integer — year of establishment of the journal

publisher: character — publisher of the journal

url: character — URL link to the journal website

scope: character — scope of the journal

type_id: integer — id number of the article type, by each journal

type_category: character — category of the article type

type: character — name of the article type, as defined by the journal

lower_limit: character — lower (character/word/page) limit of the format

upper_limit: character — upper (character/word/page) limit of the format

limit_unit: character — unit of the type limits (character/word/page)

last_updated: date — the date when each observation was last updated, in the "YYYY-MM" format

Issues

Any issues with the data, package, and/or app can be reported at https://github.com/resulumit/psjournals/issues.

Citation

Umit, Resul, 2024, "psjournals: An R data package on political science journals", https://doi.org/10.7910/DVN/UENCQA, Harvard Dataverse, V3.

Notes

1: The initial list of journals has been put together from lists at apsa.org (see here and here) and wikipedia.org (see here and here).

2: In practice, this variable comes from ooir.org. See here.