Serbian researchers papers in Web of Science database in the period 2003-2021

<p>This is dataset about Serbian papers published in journals indexed in Web of Science collections in the period 2003-2021<br> We used as &quot;serbian&quot; countries: Serbia, Serbia and Montenegro, Yugoslavia</p> <p>The terms Serbian researcher and Serbian paper used in this dataset are defined as follows:<br> Serbian researcher is a researcher affiliated with a Serbian institution,<br> Serbian paper is a paper with at least one Serbian researcher in the list of authors.<br> This means that a paper published by a researcher with non-Serbian nationality (i.e. German) working at a Serbian institution is taken into account in the analysis of Serbian papers described in this paper.</p> <p>Thomson Reuters&rsquo; Web of Science (WoS) database was used for data acquisition. We searched Serbian papers in two WoS collections - Science Citation Index Expanded (SCIE) and the Social Science Citation Index (SSCI). The search query executed over those collections on 18th of January, 2022.<br> CU=(%Serbia% &nbsp;OR %Serbia and Montenegro% OR %Yugoslavia%) AND PY=[2003-2021]<br> &nbsp;</p> <p>We also analyzed the number of articles of Serbian researchers published in journals with an unstable impact factor (IF), i.e. journals which didn&rsquo;t have an IF before 2008, and had one in some subperiod of 2008-2015, i.e. lost their IF until 2015. The majority of those journals stopped being indexed in Web of Science as a ban for losing the quality or having predatory journal behavior. We found 143 such journals and their ISSNs by using the JCR (Journal citation reports in the period 2007 - 2015).<br> <br> &nbsp;</p>