Career Trajectories of Japanese Researchers and Institutional Attributes (1980–2020)

The dataset bundles two complementary comma-separated values (CSV) files describing the career progression of researchers from doctoral graduation to assistant professor (AP) and full professor (FP) appointments, together with a lookup table that standardizes institutional attributes. All records were aggregated from researchmap profiles and curated to support analyses of academic mobility and institutional characteristics focused on the 1980–2020 period. The two files can be used independently or joined through shared institution name fields. Research Asset Characteristic: Longitudinal depth: 40 years of academic career data. Institutional linkage: Standardized mapping of 9,500+ institutions. Cross-disciplinary comparability: Enables analysis across all academic domains. Policy relevance: Supports evaluation of Japanese higher education and mobility policies.