Papers Cited in NICE Public Health Guidelines Matched in Web of Science

Susan Guthrie compiled a list of academic papers cited in NICE public health guidelines that were matched in the Web of Science database. The dataset includes reference details, the specific guideline where each citation appears, and metadata such as country, institutional affiliations, publication year, discipline, and specialty. It is released under an Open Access (green) license.

Use Cases

• Analyze the types of research evidence underpinning public health guidelines based on cited paper metadata.
• Map the geographic and institutional origins of guideline-cited research based on country and affiliation data.
• Study the disciplinary and specialty composition of the evidence base for health policy based on the described classification fields.
• Track the publication timeline of evidence used in guidelines based on the year of publication data.

Strengths

• Links academic publications directly to specific NICE public health guidelines, providing a traceable evidence base.
• Includes multi-faceted metadata such as institutional affiliations, country, discipline, and specialty for cited papers.

Limitations

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

Provenance

Source

Susan Guthrie, via paperswithcode.

Collection Method

Papers cited in NICE guidelines were matched against the Web of Science database.