Data and figures for "Evolving interdisciplinary contributions to global societal challenges: A 50-year overview"

This package accompanies the preprint titled "Evolving interdisciplinary contributions to global societal challenges: A 50-year overview", available on arXiv. The datasets and figures included are derived from data obtained through the OpenAlex API. For further details, please refer to the original preprint.

Suppl_data_1.csv
Domains are labelled by 𝛼 = 1, ..., 4, where 1: Life Sciences, 2: Social Sciences, 3: Physical Sciences, and 4: Health Sciences.

pyear
Year of publication

nwork
Number of publications, indexed in OpenAlex

nwork𝛼
Number of publications in domain 𝛼, indexed in OpenAlex

nIDR

Number of publications with ’multi-/inter-/trans-disciplinar*’ in Title or Abstract, indexed in OpenAlex

nIDR𝛼
Number of publications in domain 𝛼 with ’multi-/inter-/trans-disciplinar*’ in Title or Abstract, indexed in OpenAlex

%nIDR 
Ratio of nIDR to nwork (in %) 

%nIDR𝛼 
Ratio of nIDR𝛼 to nwork𝛼 (in %)

Suppl_data_2.csv
Disciplines (the level-0 concepts defined in OpenAlex) are labelled by k = 1, ..., 19, where 1: Political Science, 2: Philosophy, 3: Economics, 4: Business, 5: Psychology, 6: Mathematics, 7: Medicine, 8: Biology, 9: Computer Science, 10: Geology, 11: Chemistry, 12: Art, 13: Sociology, 14: Engineering, 15: Geography, 16: History, 17: Materials Science, 18: Physics, and 19: Environmental Science. 

idwork
Work identifier starting with ‘W’, as defined in OpenAlex

pyear
Year of publication

citation
Number of citations, as of April 2024, indexed in OpenAlex

discipk
Score of affinity to each of the level-0 concepts defined in OpenAlex (k = 1, ..., 19)

SDGm

Score of affinity to each of the United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) (m = 1, ..., 17)