Source data for The Hidden Force: bacteriophages and the activation gap in Antarctic soils

This dataset provides the source data supporting the review ‘The Hidden Force: bacteriophages and the activation gap in Antarctic soils.’ The Excel workbook contains the merged bibliographic corpus used for the bibliometric analysis, including records retrieved through two Web of Science searches (114 and 75 records; 24 duplicates; 165 unique records), publication metadata, title–abstract concept coding, temporal groupings, semantic theme and habitat descriptors, and derived data used to prepare Figures 1–5 and Supplementary Figures S1–S2.

The concept dictionary contains 30 non-exclusive categories; each concept contributes at most one occurrence per record. The dataset supports verification of the reported counts, percentages and visualizations. This review uses published literature and bibliographic metadata only and contains no human- or animal-subject data.