Author ZIP codes and topics of study for all research articles of nine leading ecological journals in 2008

This data includes the ZIP codes of all Authors of all research publications appearing in the journals Trends in Ecology and Evolution, Annual Review of Ecology, Evolution and Systematics, Ecology Letters, Ecological Monographs, Ecology, Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment, The American Naturalist, Ecological Applications, and Oecologia in the year 2008. The data also includes the volume, issue, and starting page number for all articles, and a score indicating whether or not the article could be classified into any one of 21 topical categories. This data was compiled to map an index of the spatial distribution of ecologists’ publications throughout the United States.