Data Sheet 1_Platform engineering and internal developer portals: a multivocal literature

88 sources, including peer-reviewed and gray literature, are synthesized in this multivocal literature review on platform engineering and internal developer portals. The dataset, authored by Mateen Ali Anjum and last updated in May 2026, quantifies a significant academic-practitioner divide, with only 2.3% of sources originating from tier-1 academic venues. It presents a taxonomy of portal components, an integrated metrics framework, and a comparative analysis of four maturity models.

Use Cases

• Analyzing the taxonomy of internal developer portal components based on 36 architecture-focused sources.
• Comparing platform engineering maturity models based on the review's synthesis of four models.
• Investigating the gap between academic research and practitioner adoption based on the quantified divide of 2.3% tier-1 sources.
• Studying integrated success metrics based on the framework spanning DORA, SPACE, and developer experience dimensions.

Strengths

• Synthesizes 88 sources, providing a broad evidence base.
• Explicitly tiers sources by provenance and assesses gray literature using the AACODS framework.
• Addresses five specific research questions on literature state, architecture, metrics, barriers, and maturity.

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 very small at 7.0 KB, indicating limited scope.

Provenance

Source

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Collection Method

Multivocal literature review synthesizing peer-reviewed and gray literature.

Time Range

Publication date of the review is implied as 2026.

Freshness

Last updated 2026-05-04 05:34:01; freshness should be verified.

Geography

Global, based on the international scope of the literature reviewed.