TY - DATA T1 - A user-friendly extract of the LibGen scimag metadata SQL dump on 2017-04-07 PY - 2017/07/21 AU - Daniel Himmelstein AU - Stephen McLaughlin UR - https://figshare.com/articles/dataset/A_user-friendly_extract_of_the_LibGen_scimag_metadata_SQL_dump_on_2017-04-07/5231245 DO - 10.6084/m9.figshare.5231245.v1 L4 - https://ndownloader.figshare.com/files/8935477 L4 - https://ndownloader.figshare.com/files/8935489 KW - LibGen KW - scimag KW - DOI KW - metadata KW - scimag_dbbackup KW - database KW - SQL KW - TSV KW - Informetrics KW - Library and Information Studies N2 - This dataset contains the metadata for the LibGen scimag database of full-text scholarly documents. Each row of this dataset corresponds to a scholarly document in the LibGen scimag database, as identified by its DOI.scimag_dbbackup-2017-04-07.rar was downloaded from http://libgen.io/dbdumps/backup_archive/scimag_dbbackup-2017-04-07.rar. It's a compressed SQL dump of the LibGen scimag metadata database on 2017-04-07. This is the unmodified file downloaded from libgen.io. It encodes a single table named scimag.libgen-scimag-2017-04-07.tsv.xz contains a TSV version of the scimag table from scimag_dbbackup-2017-04-07.rar. It's more user-friendly because it provides access to the data without requiring MySQL, is UTF-8 encoded, and has null bytes removed.The code that downloaded and processed these datasets is at https://git.io/v7Uh4. Users should note that the TimeAdded column appears to store the modification rather than the creation date for each DOI. As discussed in https://doi.org/b9s5, this field should not be mistaken for the date of first upload to LibGen scimag. ER -