Bibliometric and topic-model dataset for a structured review of wetland salinization, saltwater intrusion and coastal squeeze (Scopus export, 1986–2025)

Corpus size: 775 records. Coverage: 1986–2025 (the raw export also contains 25 early-access records dated 2026 and 2 retracted records, flagged in analysis_verified.json). Indicators: 367 sources; 25,951 citations; mean 33.5, median 12 citations/paper; h-index 73.

Exact search string, date of retrieval and screening criteria: see the manuscript Methods. Contents Scopus_bibliography.csv - the raw 775-record Scopus export (33 fields incl. Authors, Year, Source title, Cited by, Affiliations, Author Keywords, Abstract, Document Type); the single primary input from which every figure and table is derived. analysis_verified.json - the verified single source of truth, computed directly from the CSV: basic indicators, full annual + cumulative series, Bradford zones, most-productive sources and countries, 12 most-cited documents, document-type composition, and corpus-cleaning flags; also carries the LDA topics/terms, the driver–instrument framework rows, and the 23-study appraisal.

Bibliometric_Analysis_Workbook.xlsx - multi-sheet workbook (indicators, annual production, Bradford, most-cited, keyword co-occurrence, LDA topics) with reconciliation formulas. Bibliometric_Toolkit.zip - reproducibility bundle: the analysis configuration and scripts that regenerate the indicators and figures from Scopus_bibliography.csv.