Red Bull-Sponsored Energy Drink Research Studies, 2000-2021

Christopher Garcia compiled a corpus of 112 peer-reviewed energy drink research studies published between 2000 and 2021. The dataset includes detailed records of Red Bull-affiliated studies and symposia, listing authors, journals, conclusions, and funding disclosures. It is provided as a DOCX file under a CC-BY-4.0 license on figshare.

Use Cases

• Analyzing patterns in funding and conflict-of-interest disclosures based on the verbatim disclosure language recorded for each study.
• Identifying recurring authorship networks in sponsored research based on the flagged authors with documented histories of Red Bull funding.
• Comparing conclusions and publication venues between sponsored and non-sponsored energy drink research based on the bold formatting used to distinguish Red Bull-affiliated studies.
• Tracing the dissemination of sponsored findings into conference and editorial channels based on the separate catalog of symposium abstracts and editorial content.

Strengths

• Includes 112 peer-reviewed studies, providing a defined corpus for analysis.
• Covers a 22-year time range from 2000 to 2021, allowing for longitudinal examination.
• Records verbatim funding and conflict-of-interest disclosures from original manuscripts, supporting transparency.
• Flags authors with recurring sponsorship relationships, making patterns of affiliation visible.

Limitations

• Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.
• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• The dataset is small at 173.6 KB, indicating limited scope.

Provenance

Source

figshare, author Christopher Garcia.

Collection Method

Likely compiled through manual identification and analysis of peer-reviewed literature and conference proceedings.

Time Range

2000 to 2021 (with Red Bull-affiliated studies specifically from 2001 to 2022).

Freshness

Last updated 2026-04-24 22:43:50; freshness should be verified.