CDC Text Corpora: Metadata for 33,567 MMWR, EID, and PCD Articles

33,567 articles from three major CDC journals provide a structured corpus for public health text analysis. Metadata includes titles, authors, keywords, and publication details for the Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report, Emerging Infectious Diseases, and Preventing Chronic Disease. The collection was compiled from source content retrieved on 2024-01-09 and published on the data.cdc.gov platform.

Use Cases

• Analyze topic trends over time using `dl_year_mo`, `md_citation_categories`, and `title` from the available columns.
• Build author networks or collaboration graphs using `md_citation_author` and `collection` from the available columns.
• Train keyword extraction or classification models using `md_kwds`, `md_desc`, and `title` from the available columns.
• Link article metadata to full-text mirrors for content analysis using `mirror_path`, `link_canon`, and `url` from the available columns.

Strengths

• Contains metadata for 33,567 articles from authoritative CDC publications.
• Includes structured fields like `md_citation_doi`, `md_citation_author`, and `md_kwds` for detailed analysis.
• Covers three distinct journal collections (MMWR, EID, PCD) with a defined version date of 2024-03-01.

Limitations

• Row count for the metadata table is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.
• Description metadata is limited; actual data quality and completeness of all columns require manual inspection after download.

Provenance

Source

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) journals: MMWR, Emerging Infectious Diseases, Preventing Chronic Disease.

Collection Method

Compiled via the 'harvest-cdc-journals' program, which created HTML mirrors and extracted metadata.

Freshness

Last updated 2026-05-02 00:35:31; freshness should be verified.