Dominance and leadership in research activities: collaboration between countries of differing human development is reflected through authorship order and designation as corresponding authors in scientific publications.

An XLSX Excel file which provides data used by Gregorio González-Alcaide & collaborators in the article “Dominance and leadership in research activities: collaboration between countries of differing human development is reflected through authorship order and designation as corresponding authors in scientific publications”. The worksheet “labels” describes every variable. The worksheets “Tropical Medicine-C1”, “Infectious Diseases-C1”, “Parasitology-C1” and “Pediatrics-C1” present the following data: WOS: Identifier for indexed document in the Web of Science used for the study. Web of Science identifiers do not change over time and are never reused. ORDER: Order of the authors who participated in the study. C1: Authors’ countries who participated in the study. ECO: Countries classification according to their Human Development Index. GEO: Countries classification according to a macro geographic (continental) region. The worksheets “Tropical Medicine-RP”, “Infectious Diseases-RP”, “Parasitology-RP” and “Pediatrics-RP” present the following data: WOS: Identifiers for indexed documents in the Web of Science used for the study. Web of Science identifiers do not change over time and are never reused. RP: Authors’ countries designated as corresponding authors. ECO: Countries classification according to their Human Development Index. GEO: Countries classification according to a macro geographic (continental) region.