EPA Science Inventory: 94,428 Environmental Research Reports and Presentations

94,428 records of EPA research products, including reports and presentations, were scraped from the Science Inventory and NEPIS databases. Produced by the EPA's Office of Research and Development, this archive includes metadata and downloaded documents organized by title and entry ID. The collection was last updated in March 2026.

Use Cases

• Topic modeling on environmental research using the 'Title' and extracted text
• Tracking institutional research output by filtering records from the 'Office of Research and Development'
• Building a citation graph using the 'Entry ID' and 'url' metadata

Strengths

• 94,428 records
• 31 URL columns for multi-part documents
• Expert-authored by EPA's Office of Research and Development

Limitations

• Potential missing NEPIS files due to rate limiting
• Uncategorized file types (reports vs presentations)
• Scraped metadata may have naming artifacts

Provenance

Source

EPA Science Inventory and National Environmental Publications Internet Site (NEPIS)

Collection Method

Scraped

Freshness

Last updated March 2026.

Geography

United States