Source data for the scientometric analysis of citizen science research publications

Source data for the scientometric comparison of citizen science research (n=5749 documents) and a semi-random sample of publications (n=5734) retrieved from the Web of Science Core Collection and published between 1997-2021. The data include information on: author(s) full name(s) ("AF"); year of publication ("PY"); title ("TI"); Digital Object Identifier ("DI"); abstract ("AB"); open access indicator ("OA"); author(s) affiliation(s) ("C1"); document type ("DT"); funding entity ("FU"); funding text ("FX"); total number of citations ("TC"); and identifier of the collection ("group"): CS for citizen science and SRS for the semi-random sample collection respectively.