Data and code for: Institutional neglect or evidence gap? A systematic review of red panda Ailurus fulgens research and policy needs in the Indian Himalaya

Data and code underlying a systematic review of peer-reviewed red panda (Ailurus fulgens) research in India, 2000-2025. The corpus comprises 22 studies: 18 recovered from OpenAlex and Semantic Scholar, and 4 by reference-list and library hand-search. The bundle contains the search harvest and API calls, the screening and adjudication scripts, the complete decision log with reasons for every exclusion, the study-by-study matrix and supplementary tables, the bibliography, and the scripts that generate every figure in the paper. See README.md for the commands, package requirements, and the licence and attribution table for the spatial layers used in Figure 3.