Dimensions of Novelty in STEM Publications, 2000-2014

A dataset supporting a study on the association between industry publishing contribution and recombinant novelty in scientific publications. It is derived from a longitudinal dataset of 11.1 million publications across 1639 STEM fields from 2000 to 2014. The dataset, created by Anubha Shokhand and shared under a CC-BY-4.0 license, was last updated on April 27, 2026.

Use Cases

• Analyzing the relationship between industry publishing and novelty occurrence based on the described study framework
• Modeling trade-offs between novelty breadth and novelty distance as industry involvement changes
• Investigating the role of top-ranked institutions in managing different dimensions of novelty
• Informing policy decisions on encouraging exploratory novelty in fields with substantial industry publishing

Strengths

• Derived from a substantial source corpus of 11.1 million publications
• Covers a longitudinal time range from 2000 to 2014
• Focuses on a specific, policy-relevant research question regarding industry contribution and novelty

Limitations

• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download
• Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment
• The 5.5 KB file size suggests a very limited, likely aggregated or summary dataset

Provenance

Source

Anubha Shokhand via figshare

Collection Method

Likely derived from bibliometric analysis of a large publication corpus.

Time Range

2000 to 2014

Freshness

Last updated 2026-04-27 17:45:34; freshness should be verified

Geography

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