Industry Publishing and Scientific Novelty in STEM Fields, 2000-2014

A longitudinal dataset of 11.1 million publications across 1639 STEM fields from 2000 to 2014, created by Anubha Shokhand. It examines the association between industry publishing contribution and three dimensions of recombinant novelty in scientific publications. The data was last updated on 2026-04-27.

Use Cases

• Analyzing the association between industry publishing contribution and novelty occurrence in STEM fields.
• Modeling the relationship between industry involvement and novelty breadth of scientific publications.
• Investigating the trade-off between novelty distance and other novelty forms as industry contribution increases.
• Studying the role of top-ranked research institutions in managing novelty trade-offs.

Strengths

• Contains 11.1 million publication records.
• Covers a 15-year time range from 2000 to 2014.
• Spans 1639 distinct STEM fields.
• Released under a permissive CC-BY-4.0 license.

Limitations

• The dataset is very small at 5.5 KB, suggesting it is likely aggregated summary statistics, not raw publication data.
• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Row count for the underlying data is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.

Provenance

Source

figshare

Collection Method

Likely compiled from bibliometric databases for longitudinal analysis.

Time Range

2000 to 2014

Freshness

Last updated 2026-04-27 17:45:35; freshness should be verified.