Citation Context Network for a Cohort Study, 343 Papers with Textual Passages

Supplementary data for 'Diversity in citations to a single study' published in Quantitative Science Studies. The dataset contains bibliometric data from Web of Science for all papers citing a specific cohort study up to 1984, including citation contexts manually recovered from 343 full-text papers. Author Rhodri Leng from the University of Edinburgh prepared the data, which is cleaned and coded for network analysis.

Use Cases

• Constructing citation networks based on bibliometric links between citing papers.
• Analyzing citation contexts and discourse based on manually recovered textual passages.
• Classifying papers by their cited findings (e.g., serum cholesterol, blood pressure) using the provided attribute columns.
• Studying the diversity of citation motivations and classifications for a single seminal study.

Strengths

• Includes manually recovered citation contexts from 343 full-text papers.
• Data is cleaned and converted into network-readable formats with a detailed code book.
• Covers all citations to a specific cohort study (Paul et al.) up to the year 1984.

Limitations

• Row count and total number of citing papers are unknown, limiting suitability assessment.
• Column-level documentation is absent from the provided metadata; field semantics must be inferred from the code book after download.
• Last update date is unknown; freshness unverified.

Provenance

Source

Web of Science Core Collection via University of Edinburgh Library subscription.

Collection Method

Bibliometric data collection and manual recovery of citation contexts from full-text documents.

Time Range

Citations up to and including 1984.