Comprehensive IEEE Research Data Collections (CIRDC)

The IEEE Xplore database is vital in democratizing access to high-quality research datasets, fostering global collaboration, and promoting interdisciplinary studies. Insights from the IEEE Xplore database support applications in academic collaboration networks, predictive research trends, recommendation systems, and the evolution of scientific discourse. It is downloaded using web data mining methods, such as HTTP requests, web scraping with Selenium, and LXML parsing with BeautifulSoup. These various methods are discussed for their efficiency and complexity. As a means of ensuring the quality of these datasets, we propose the use of cross-repository validation. Source codes and scripts for data collection are provided to promote transparency and reproducibility.