This bibliometric dataset comprises metadata of research articles published by three prominent Digital Humanities journals: Computers and the Humanities (Chum) 1966 to 2004, Digital Scholarship in the Humanities (DSH) 1986 to 2017, and Digital Humanities Quarterly (DHQ) 2007 to 2017. It has been manually compiled with information such as 'article title', 'authors', 'affiliations', 'year', 'volume number', 'issue number', 'abstract', and 'keywords'. Many records within the dataset are not indexed in the Web of Science citation index. An author co-citation network is constructed based on this dataset, and the node and edge information of the network is also included.