The geotemporal demographics of academic journals from 1950 to 2013 according to Ulrich’s database
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Highlights：
• The inequality of academic journal publishing across countries shows a wavy change.
• Most of the top ten publishing countries have experienced a rising-decreasing-stabilizing pattern of academic journals’ growth before 2000.
• The temporal and spatial variation of academic journals’ distribution may be attributed to political and economic factors.
• The spatial autocorrelation of academic journals’ distribution was firstly strengthened and mitigated.
• The European cluster has been the hot-spot area in academic journal publishing since 1950.
摘要
•The inequality of academic journal publishing across countries shows a wavy change.•Most of the top ten publishing countries have experienced a rising-decreasing-stabilizing pattern of academic journals’ growth before 2000.•The temporal and spatial variation of academic journals’ distribution may be attributed to political and economic factors.•The spatial autocorrelation of academic journals’ distribution was firstly strengthened and mitigated.•The European cluster has been the hot-spot area in academic journal publishing since 1950.
论文关键词：Academic journals,Exploratory spatial data analysis,Geographic evolution
论文评审过程：Received 2 September 2016, Revised 17 May 2017, Accepted 17 May 2017, Available online 13 June 2017, Version of Record 13 June 2017.
论文官网地址：https://doi.org/10.1016/j.joi.2017.05.006
