Political Science Under Pressure: 20-Year Disciplinary Replication Data

This replication package provides the data and code documenting academic competition and collaboration trends in political science from 2003 to 2023. Authored by Carolina Torreblanca for Perspectives on Politics, it contains the necessary materials to reproduce all figures and tables from the associated study.

Use Cases

• Analyzing collaboration trends using the 2003-2023 time-series data
• Replicating competition metrics for political science knowledge production
• Studying disciplinary shifts in social sciences over a 20-year period

Strengths

• Covers a 20-year longitudinal period from 2003 to 2023
• Includes full replication code for all study figures and tables
• Peer-reviewed origin from Perspectives on Politics

Limitations

• Specific column names and record counts are not provided in the metadata
• Primary data source for the bibliometric metrics is not explicitly stated

Provenance

Source

Perspectives on Politics

Time Range

2003-2023

Freshness

Last updated March 2026