Dataset for JASIST paper "Finding 'similar' universities using ChatGPT for institutional benchmarking: A large-scale comparison of European universities"

This dataset contains the HEIs proposed by Chat GPT as benchmarks for all PhD-awarding HEIs in the European Tertiary Education Register (https://national-policies.eacea.ec.europa.eu/eheso/micro-data-access) as described in the quoted paper fortchoming in JASIST. Data are provided for the three queries described in the paper. Fields are as follows: eterid: the ETER id focal HEI. peer-eterid: the ETER id of the proposed peer. peer_original_name: the peer name as provided by Chat GPT. reasoning: the reasoning proposed for the similarity. notes: specific remarks, such as the peer being in reality a component of an HEI. The queries were performed in September 2024 using GTP-4.