Environmental Claims with Scholarly Literature Support

A collection of 1,233 environmental claims, of which three are supported by scholarly literature. The dataset was authored by Maya Bach and last updated on April 22, 2026. It is available as a 5.5 KB Excel file under a CC-BY-4.0 license on figshare.

Use Cases

• Assessing the prevalence of evidence-backed claims based on the count of supported versus unsupported assertions.
• Training fact-checking models based on the binary classification of claims with scholarly support.
• Studying the relationship between environmental discourse and academic literature based on the described feature.

Strengths

• Contains a specific count of 1,233 total claims.
• Explicitly identifies three claims with scholarly literature support.
• Released under a permissive CC-BY-4.0 license.

Limitations

• Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.
• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Description metadata is limited; actual data quality requires manual inspection after download.

Provenance

Source

figshare

Collection Method

Method of gathering claims is not described.

Time Range

Temporal coverage is not specified.

Freshness

Last updated 2026-04-22 17:22:22; freshness should be verified.

Geography

Geographic scope is not specified.