Research designs examining the benefits of nature exposure

This dataset records features of the research design and methodology used in 125 studies examining the benefits of nature exposure for human wellbeing. , To identify studies that examined the benefits of nature exposure for human well-being, we conducted a search in Clarivate’s Web of Science (WoS) database on August 22, 2022 using the following Boolean search terms: (“greenspace” OR “green space” OR “bluespace” OR “blue space”) OR ((“nature” OR “nature-based”) NEAR/1 (“experience*” OR “expos*” OR “connect*” OR “immers*”)). We stratified our sample by the following time periods: 2009-2010, 2011-2011, 2013-2014, 2015-2016, 2017-2018, 2019-2020 and 2021. We screened the resulting lists of citations to exclude reviews and non-empirical work, studies that reported impacts solely on the physical environment (e.g., land surface temperature, air pollution levels), and studies reporting purely qualitative measures. We selected top-cited papers as well as a random selection of papers within each time period, yielding a total of 125 studies. We carefully reviewed the full text of the sampled articles. For each study, we recorded the number of cita..., , # Research designs examining the benefits of nature exposure

[https://doi.org/10.5061/dryad.z612jm6j3](https://doi.org/10.5061/dryad.z612jm6j3)

This dataset records key features of 125 published studies examining the human well-being benefits of exposure to nature or \"green space.\"

## Description of the data and file structure

The dataset records 17 variables for each of 125 published studies.

* **Citation:** Full journal citation for each study.
* **Period:** The year of publication, recoded to the following periods: 2009-2010, 2011-2011, 2013-2014, 2015-2016, 2017-2018, 2019-2020, and 2021.
* **PaperType:** We sampled the most highly-cited papers (*TopCited*) and a random selection of papers (*Random*) within each Period.
* **Cites:** The number of citations as reported by Clarivate’s Web of Science (WoS) database on August 22, 2022.
* **Nation:** The nation(s) in which the study was performed.
* **SampleSize:** The number of human subjects or geographic regions studied, as repor...