Reported dataset on Environmental Kuznets Curve

Dataset includes all the papers published in Scopus database related to EKC theory during the period of 1994 to 2022. As shown in Figure 1, 18 categories were created in a table: year of publication (extracted from Scopus each papers), title of paper (extracted from Scopus or each paper), author(s) name(s) (extracted from Scopus or each paper), journal of publication (extracted from Scopus or each paper), affiliation country (extracted from Scopus or each paper), DOI (extracted from Scopus or each paper), examination country-ies (mentioned in each paper), period of included data (mentioned in each papers), independent variable(s) (mentioned in each paper), dependent variable(s) (mentioned in each paper), data source(s) (mentioned in each paper), followed methodology-ies (mentioned in each paper), shape of EK curve (Inverted U, N, Inverted N, U, monotonic and other shapes, mentioned in each papers), EKC verification (YES, NO, PARTIALLY, UNCERTAIN, mentioned in each paper), conclusion (taken from the corresponding section of documents), limitations (taken from the corresponding section and also from our analysis), proposals (taken from the corresponding section of the papers) and criticism (taken from the corresponding section and also from our analysis).