Co-authorship network dataset on psoriasis research papers from Medline database (1942-2013).

A ".xlsx" file which provides data used by Gregorio González-Alcaide & collaborators in the article “Evolution of cooperation patterns in psoriasis research: co-authorship network analysis of papers in Medline (1942-2013).” The worksheet “labels” describes every variable. The worksheet “dataset” presents the following data: PMID: PubMed Identifier for indexed documents in Pubmed used for the study. PMIDs do not change over time or during processing and are never reused. DP: Date that the article was published. FAU: Author name for articles published. From 2002 forward, the full author name of authors is provided, if available. FAU-Revised: Author name after cleansing process. A standardization process of the variations in signatures from single authors was carried out. The main discrepancies we found were caused by one or more first or last names being included, the authors’ first names being either spelled out or abbreviated to the initials, and typos.