Complementary dataset of Overton metadata on citing policy-related documents for the study "From intent to impact: Investigating the effects of open sharing commitments"

This document provides the underlying dataset for the bibliometric component for the 2022 study "From intent to impact: Investigating the effects of open sharing commitments" by Research Consulting and Science-Metrix.

Before reproducing the study findings or re-using the underlying datasets for other purposes, please cautiously review their limitations in the study's technical annex and main report, available at: https://zenodo.org/communities/data-sharing-in-public-health-emergencies/ 

Special thanks from the Science-Metrix / Elsevier teams to Euan Adie and Overton for this exceptional public release of Overton metadata, and for conducting extraordinary data collection to retrieve citations towards arXiv preprints.

Scope: note that this file combines cited journal publications and preprints from the Covid19, HVRD, Zika and HVVD thematic sets.

Data treatment: this data is intend foremost to provide manual validation or qualitative triangulation of our findings. No special efforts have been made to process and clean the data for its eventual re-use in secondary analysis or text mining approaches.

Definitions used in this table:

Column name 
Definition

document_type
preprint or journal publication

doi
digital object identifier

arxiv_id
arXiv preprint server's unique identifier for its preprints

ssrn_id
SSRN preprint server's unique identifier for its preprints. Note that some of these IDs are contained within the DOIs also assigned to some (but not all) SSRN preprints , in the form of "10.2139/ssrn." + 'ssrn_id'

coalesce_id
coalesce function applied to the DOI, arxiv_id and ssrn_id. Redundant for journal publications.

policy_source_title
name of the policy-related organization

published_on
publication date of the citing policy-related document

title
title of the citing policy-related document

pdf_url
URL for the online version of the policy-related document

snippet
Where available, excerpt of the text immediatly before and after the citation to a journal publication or preprint found in the citing policy-related document