Using Open Citation Databases for Snowballing in Software Engineering Research

Dataset for our study on the coverage of software engineering articles in open citation databases:

a list of the 23 sampled venues with their respective CORE ranks and publishers,

01-venues.csv,

a list of the 204 sampled articles with their respective number of references/citations per citation database,

02-articles.csv (articles with publication information),

03-references-absolute.csv (number of references in published PDF & absolute numbers for reference coverage in databases),

04-references-relative.csv (relative numbers for reference coverage in databases),

05-citations-absolute.csv (absolute numbers for citation coverage in databases),

06-citations relative.csv (relative numbers for citation coverage in databases),

a list of the 8 articles analyzed in more detail with complete references data from the citation databases,

07-selected-articles.csv (articles with publication information),

08A–08H (comparison of references found in databases for each article),

and additional statistical measures and plots

09-Statistics.{pdf,xlsx} (statistical measures – i.e., minimum, maximum, median, average, variance – for the whole dataset and for subsets by publisher, CORE rank, or year of publication),

10-Figures.zip (figures for references as shown in the study and additional figures for citations – each in EPS and PNG format).