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ICPSR Bibliography of Data-related Literature: Data-Linked Publication Citation Files, Full Download

Principal Investigator(s):  View help for Principal Investigator(s) Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research

Version:  View help for Version V2

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icpsr_bib.csv text/csv 56.6 MB 08/01/2025 12:46:PM

Project Citation: 

Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research. ICPSR Bibliography of Data-related Literature: Data-Linked Publication Citation Files, Full Download. Ann Arbor, MI: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [distributor], 2025-08-22. https://doi.org/10.3886/E218241V2

Project Description

Summary:  View help for Summary This dataset, taken from the database known as the ICPSR Bibliography of Data-related Literature, is a collection of citations to publications. Each citation record represents one publication that is associated with one or more ICPSR studies and/or series of studies. For the dates represented and the number of records in the dataset, see the ReadMe file.

The ICPSR Bibliography was created to be a resource for ICPSR data users, especially as a searchable database to discover reusable research data via the citing literature. This dataset is a static representation of that database, downloaded at one point in time. 

Before using this dataset to conduct analyses, researchers are encouraged look at the ReadMe file, and to contact ICPSR staff familiar with the ICPSR Bibliography at i[email protected].
Funding Sources:  View help for Funding Sources National Science Foundation (SES-9977984); Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research

Scope of Project

Subject Terms:  View help for Subject Terms Bibliographic resource; Data-linked scholarly literature; Linked citations; social sciences; behavioral health sciences
Collection Date(s):  View help for Collection Date(s) 8/1/2000 – 6/30/2025
Universe:  View help for Universe Data-related literature—that is, journal articles, reports, books, conference presentations, dissertations, and other information objects that meet at least one of a set of collection criteria. See ReadMe file.
Data Type(s):  View help for Data Type(s) other
Collection Notes:  View help for Collection Notes
  1. The comma-separated values (CSV) file is provided to enable large-scale analysis of the ICPSR Bibliography. The file (icpsr_bib.csv) contains all Bibliography entries through the date specified in the Collection Date(s) field, and is enhanced with ICPSR study numbers and/or series numbers. See the ReadMe file for more information on using these files.
  2. This static file will be updated and self-published periodically. The live ICPSR Bibliography of Data-related Literature is updated daily. The current (most up-to-date) version of the collection is searchable via the ICPSR’s website search interface.
  3. Researchers using this dataset for bibliometric analysis should be aware that the collection is not exhaustive, and it does not claim to contain the universe of findings that could be associated with each study. Additionally, over the years, due to the vagaries of funding, the work of collecting and linking citations was more intensive for some studies than others. Also, some data usage is not well cited in the scholarly literature, and is difficult to find. For those reasons, the collection is skewed in its representation. It may under-report utilization of research data and should only be viewed as a partial statement of its impact.
  4.  ICPSR study data are found to be used in a variety of types of peer-reviewed and grey literature. There are 12 RIS types (reference types) in this dataset, labeled: RIS Type. See ReadMe file for a description of each.
  5. The collection contains works that were written by the principal investigators who created the data collections, as well as by secondary authors who reused the data in those collections. There is no distinguisher in this dataset that indicates which record is primary and which record is secondary. 
  6. Not all publications appearing in this collection use the most recent version of the data. Oftentimes the version is not provided in a publication, or else the version changed after the publication was added to the Bibliography’s collection.
  7. In the collection, there could be citations to publications that most likely analyzed data distributed at ICPSR, but from the information provided this could not be determined absolutely.
  8. The collection may contain citations to publications that analyzed data very similar to those at ICPSR, but that were clearly retrieved from a different distributor. Such publications are included in the collection for the purposes of edification.
  9. The ICPSR Bibliography contains citations to publications associated with ICPSR’s curated studies only. The ICPSR Bibliography does NOT contain citations related to data projects self-published on ICPSR platforms.

Methodology

Data Source:  View help for Data Source The ICPSR Bibliography of Data-related Literature is populated from multiple sources. See the ReadMe file for more information.
Collection Mode(s):  View help for Collection Mode(s) other

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Published Versions

V3 [2026-05-13]

V2 [2025-08-22]

V1 [2025-08-01]

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