Dataset: Cultures of humanities publishing: Introducing the PACE-index to understand diversity and conformity in scholarly communication

This dataset is a supplement to the article "Cultures of humanities publishing: Introducing the PACE-index to understand diversity and conformity in scholarly communication". The dataset is based on the content of the Swepub database as of March 2025. The dataset was downloaded with the help interactive Swepub GUI (bibliometri.swepub.kb.se/bibliometrics) and contains some basic metadata about each scientific publications in the database which was published between 2004 and 2023 according to the publication year filter.

The dataset contains only peer-reviewed and other academic scientific publications ("content_marking" is "ref" or "vet") and only publications which had at least one subject field shown at the finest 5-digit level ("five_digit_topics"). Artistic, popular scientific and other non-scientific outputs are excluded. Definition of the fields: record_id: Identificator of the publication in the Swepub database creator_count: Number of authors output_types: Publication type according to Swepub categories content_marking: "ref" for peer reviewed scientific publications, "vet" for other non-peer-reviewed scientific publications publication_year: year of publication five_digit_topics: 5-digit subject field(s) according to the Swedish standard 2025 (scb.se/contentassets/10054f2ef27c437884e8cde0d38b9cc4/standard-for-svensk-indelning-av-forskningsamnen-2025.pdf) languages: three letter abbreviation of the language of publication according: to ISO 639-2b P(eer-reviewed): 1 if "content_marking" is "ref" A(rticle): 1 if "output_types" "id.kb.se/term/swepub/output/publication/journal-article" OR "id.kb.se/term/swepub/output/publication/review-article" C(o-authorship): 1 if "creator_count" > 1 E(nglish language): 1 if "languages" is "eng" PACE: 1 if P and A and C and E is 1.