Supplementary material - Political Legacies and Sustainability Education: A Bibliometric Analysis of Education for Sustainable Development Research in Higher Education

The supplementary materials provided in the repository support the transparency, reproducibility and robustness of the bibliometric analysis conducted in the manuscript “Political Legacies and Sustainability Education: A Bibliometric Analysis of Education for Sustainable Development Research in Higher Education.” The repository includes: (1) the full search strings used to retrieve data from Web of Science and Scopus databases, detailing all keywords, Boolean operators and filtering criteria applied, thereby enabling replication of the data collection process; (2) a .txt file containing the complete database of publications associated with higher education institutions from EU countries without a communist political legacy; and (3) a .txt file containing the corresponding database of publications from EU countries with an ex-communist political history.

Both datasets consist of bibliographic records exported from the selected databases and structured according to the criteria described in the methodology, allowing direct comparison between the two corpora. Together, these materials ensure full access to the underlying data and methodological design of the study, facilitating reproducibility, transparency and further research on sustainability education and the influence of political legacies on academic knowledge production.