The Issue with Special Issues: when Guest Editors Publish in Support of Self -- data and replication package

This repository contains data and analysis for the paper by Paolo Crosetto, Pablo Gómez Barreiro and Mark A Hanson "The Issue with Special Issues: when Guest Editors Publish in Support of Self -- Replication package". It allows anyone to reproduce all the analyses carried out in the paper and to download the data for further analysis.It also contains the paper, its appendix and supplementray files.How to run the analysisDownload or clone this repository.Open the .Rproj file.Open and execute the Analysis.R file.The analysis is fully carried out in the file Analysis.R. This file:loads the packages (do install them first if you do not have them yet)loads the datacalls on individual scripts in the /Scripts folder to generate individual figures or tablesFor each figure or table in the paper, there is one dedicated file.DependenciesTo run the analysis you need R and the following packages (available on CRAN):tidyverse -- a set of tools to work with tidy -- i.e. well behaved -- data. Two extra packages from the tidyverse collection are also needed, scales and magrittr.gt, gtExtras and webshot2 -- tools to make beautiful tables and save themggbeeswarm, ggtext, gghighlight, legendry and patchwork -- a set of extensions and themes for ggplotDataData is stored in the Data/ folder. It is organised as one .csv for each publisher (BMC, Discover, Frontiers, MDPI, Philosophical Transactions). MDPI gets two extra .csv files:one that ensures that the lowercase, abbreviated journal names used for MDPI journal websites are paired with the official name of the journal;and one containing date information for ~9 thousand Special Issues for which our original scrape failed to retrieve the date due to a change in MDPI's website layout during scraping.FiguresFigures are saved to the Figures/ folder. They are the high-resolution images (and do not fit well in the github preview screen) included in the paper. This repo also includes the extra figures created for presentation purposes; those are not included in the paper, and are a visual representation of the results that are mainly exposed using tables in the paper.TablesTables are saved to the Tables/ folder. They are .pdf version of the latex-compiled tables included in the paper, as well as the .tex version and sometimes a .png version.LicenseCreative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike -- CC BY-NC-SA