Data for: Indoor thermal comfort review: The tropics as the next frontier

• The datasets presented here can be useful to identify gaps of research and opportunities for further development on indoor thermal comfort in tropical regions. • The data allows statistical analysis of volume, origin, emphasis, and impact of representative documentation in this subject. • The tables provided facilitate the comparison of research from different countries and cities concerning their climate and demographics. • The reader can easily visualise the content, impact and number of citations of different studies on ITC and the presence of tendencies and data patterns. • This data can be combined with similar data from other regions for further insights into state-of-the-art research worldwide.