Data and figures for "Evolving interdisciplinary contributions to global societal challenges: A 50-year overview"

This package accompanies the paper titled "Evolving interdisciplinary contributions to global societal challenges: A 50-year overview", available on arXiv. The datasets and figures included are derived from data obtained through the OpenAlex API. For further details, please refer to the original paper. Suppl_data_1.csv Domains are labelled by 𝛼 = 1, ..., 4, where 1: Life Sciences, 2: Social Sciences, 3: Physical Sciences, and 4: Health Sciences. pyear Year of publication nwork Number of publications, indexed in OpenAlex nwork𝛼 Number of publications in domain 𝛼, indexed in OpenAlex nIDR Number of publications with ’multi-/inter-/trans-disciplinar*’ in Title or Abstract, indexed in OpenAlex nIDR𝛼 Number of publications in domain 𝛼 with ’multi-/inter-/trans-disciplinar*’ in Title or Abstract, indexed in OpenAlex %nIDR Ratio of nIDR to nwork (in %) %nIDR𝛼 Ratio of nIDR𝛼 to nwork𝛼 (in %) Suppl_data_2.csv Disciplines (the level-0 concepts defined in OpenAlex) are labelled by k = 1, ..., 19, where 1: Political Science, 2: Philosophy, 3: Economics, 4: Business, 5: Psychology, 6: Mathematics, 7: Medicine, 8: Biology, 9: Computer Science, 10: Geology, 11: Chemistry, 12: Art, 13: Sociology, 14: Engineering, 15: Geography, 16: History, 17: Materials Science, 18: Physics, and 19: Environmental Science. idwork Work identifier starting with ‘W’, as defined in OpenAlex pyear Year of publication citation Number of citations, as of April 2024, indexed in OpenAlex discipk Score of affinity to each of the level-0 concepts defined in OpenAlex (k = 1, ..., 19) SDGm Score of affinity to each of the United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) (m = 1, ..., 17)