Supporting Material: Scientific Literature on the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). Scopus - May 2022

This is a supplementary dataset for an article analysing the scientific literature related to the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) using Scopus-indexed journals. 

Data were retrieved in May 2022. Scopus was searched in the Title, Abstract, and Keywords fields  looking for each of the 17 SDGs (search query example: TITLE-ABS-KEY (“SDG1” or "SDG 1").

The dataset includes the following information for each of the 4808 scientific publication:

ID: an identificatory alphanumerical number given by the authors

Primary SDG: the main SDG the document focus on (MULTIPLE in case of more than one, ALL in case of all the SDGs)

Year: Year of publication

Title: title of the publication

Abstract: abstract of the publication

Index keywords: keywords of the publication