Raw and aggregated data for the study introduced in the article "An analysis of citing and referencing habits across all scholarly disciplines: approaches and trends in bibliographic metadata errors"

This dataset contains all the raw data and aggregated data subject of the study introduced in the article "An analysis of citing and referencing habits across all scholarly disciplines: approaches and trends in bibliographic metadata errors". The study is based on the bibliographic and citation data contained in 729 articles published in 147 journals in 27 subject areas. The articles contained a total amount of 34,140 bibliographic references and 55,100 mentions and quotations overall.

The dataset is composed of a series of files:

the files "subject_area_.csv" contain the raw data of the articles published in the journals of all the disciplines considered in the study;

the file "article_data_summary.csv" contains the aggregated data created considering the raw data in the previous files, which have been used to creating all the tables and figures in the article;

the file "starred_metadata_set.csv" contains information about the most used subset of bibliographic metadata;

the file "journals_selection.csv" contains information about all the journals selected for the study.