Flawed citation practices facilitates the unsubstantiated perception of a global trend toward increased jellyfish blooms [Dataset]

This dataset compiles 159 papers that contain statements about jellyfish population trends or papers used to support these statements. Statements of the citing papers were classified into spatial categories and degrees of affirmation. Each citation has been evaluated adapting the method proposed by Todd et al. (2007). A network of citation has been produced (see Fig. 1) and the resulting specific properties of every paper (or node) are detailed in the dataset.