Scopus bibliographic dataset on local government and energy transition between 2015 and 2025

Bibliographic data were exported from scopus in formats compatible with bibliometric software. Extracted variables included authors, publication year, journal title, institutional and country affiliations, document type, citation counts, abstracts, and author keywords. Following full-text retrieval, the dataset was refined to include 231 eligble documents that met all inclusion criteria and were relevant to exclusive breastfeeding policy research.