Dataset for analyses of patterns of mislabeling of the Shannon-Wiener diversity index

Data of 2098 papers mentioning Shannon-Wiener (S-Wi), Shannon-Weaver (S-We) or both names concurrently (S-Wi + S-We) between 1990-2015, downloaded from Web of Science database. Metadata of every paper originally included authors' names, title, journal and year of publishing, database accession number, first author's address, and affiliation to focal research area(s). We added information concerning research type (applied vs basic), affiliation to country and region of origin, if the first author is a native or non-native speaker (language), and impact on a scientific community (H-index of particular country - higher (> 200), lower (< 200)).