Replication data for: Open access to data: An ideal professed but not practised

A detailed description of the variables used can be found in Section 3 - Data and definition of variables - of the paper entitled "Open access to data: An ideal professed but not practiced", published in: Research Policy, 43(9), 2014, 1621-1633. For a description of how the citation data was generated please see the uploaded paper entitled "A brief guide for the creation of author-specific citation metrics and publication data using the Thomson Reuters Web of Science and Scopus Databases" by Mueller-Langer et al. (2013).