UK Doctoral Thesis Metadata from EThOS

This dataset has been superseded by a more recent version: https://doi.org/10.23636/kvwc-ty06. If you require access to an earlier version, please email [e-mail], including the dataset title, date, and DOI in your request. The data in this collection comprises the bibliographic metadata for all UK doctoral theses listed in EThOS, the UK's national thesis service. We estimate the data covers around 98% of all PhDs ever awarded by UK Higher Education institutions, dating back to 1787. Thesis metadata from every PhD-awarding university in the UK is included. You can investigate and re-use this unique collection of UK universities' PhD thesis data to analyse trends in postgraduate research, make connections between researchers, apply large data analysis, improve citation of theses and many more applications.

本数据集已由更新版本替代，更新版本的链接为：https://doi.org/10.23636/kvwc-ty06。若您需要获取本数据集的旧版本，请发送邮件至[e-mail]，并在请求中注明数据集标题、日期及DOI编号。本数据集收录了英国国家论文服务机构EThOS所收录的全部英国博士学位论文的文献元数据。据估算，本数据集覆盖了英国高等教育机构自1787年以来授予的约98%的博士学位论文，且包含英国所有具备博士学位授予权的高校的论文元数据。您可对这套独具特色的英国高校博士论文数据集开展研究与复用，以分析研究生研究趋势、梳理研究者间的关联、进行大规模数据分析、优化学位论文引用等诸多应用场景。