Converging or diverging? Investigating the relationship between funding allocation and national research specializations across 15 countries

This dataset accompanies the paper Converging or diverging? Investigating the relationship between funding allocation and national research specializations across 15 countries. It provides comprehensive data on number and share of publication, research specialization and funding specialization across countries. Contents: The dataset consists of 10 Excel files: Unified funding organizations. xlsx: Contains harmonized names and codes of major domestic funding organizations across 15 countries. 84 categories.xlsx: Provides the disciplinary classification system (84 subject categories) used for CV research. Number and share of publications with acknowledgement across countries. xlsx: Reports the total number and share of publications acknowledging funding support in each country. Number and share of publications supported by major domestic funders. xlsx: Presents the number and proportion of publications supported by the primary national funding agencies in each country. Number of publications across countries. xlsx: Contains overall publication counts for each country. RSI of national publications across countries. xlsx: Subdomain-level RSI values for 15 countries, calculated from national publication data. RSI of national publication with acknowledgement. xlsx: Subdomain-level RSI values for 15 countries, calculated from national acknowledged publications. RSI of publication supported by major domestic funders. xlsx: RSI values for publications supported by each country’s primary funding agencies. Share of publications across countries. xlsx: Provides the share of each field in the total publications of each country. Topics information.xlsx: Metadata describing the research topics generated via topic modeling.