Epistemic Stewardship and Gatekeeping in Scholarly Journals: 132 Manuscripts

Abeer Elshater's dataset supports the study "Epistemic Stewardship and Gatekeeping in Scholarly Journals" and documents a structured data-mining and content-analysis process. It is based on a corpus of 132 manuscripts and is organized into two tables, including query strategies and coded thematic outputs. The dataset was last updated on 2026-05-10 and is licensed under CC-BY-4.0.

Use Cases

• Analyze peer-review practices as a gatekeeping mechanism based on the described content-analysis process.
• Study epistemic stewardship in academic publishing based on the coded thematic outputs.
• Reproduce or audit the analytical process for transparency based on the included query strategies and appendices.
• Train or benchmark NLP models on academic peer-review texts based on the described text corpus.

Strengths

• Includes a corpus of 132 manuscripts, providing a defined scope for analysis.
• Contains structured query strategies and coded thematic outputs, enabling reproducibility.
• Licensed under CC-BY-4.0, allowing for broad reuse and sharing.

Limitations

• Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.
• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• The dataset is small at 148.2 KB, indicating a limited scope.

Provenance

Source

Abeer Elshater via figshare.

Collection Method

Structured data-mining and content-analysis of a manuscript corpus.

Freshness

Last updated 2026-05-10 05:57:58; freshness should be verified.