Research collaboration patterns in sustainable mining – a co-authorship analysis of publications

<p>This dataset includes data related to 4220 articles on sustainable mining published from 1983 to 2018. The Scopus database was selected as a data source. Detailed data applies to co-authored articles. The number of authors and affiliations (country, institution, sector) were taken into account. Data has been cleaned in terms of names of institutions and countries.<br> In given sets the following data were included:<br> - Distribution of articles in sustainable mining from 1983 to 2018<br> - Distribution of joint articles and the types of joint articles from 1983 to 2018<br> - Team size in terms of the number of authors of articles in sustainable mining from 1983 to 2018<br> - Team size in terms of the number of authors&#39; institutions in articles in sustainable mining from 1983 to 2018<br> - Team size in terms of the number of authors&#39; countries in articles in sustainable mining from 1983 to 2018</p> <p><strong>Please note, the field separator used in these files is a semicolon, while the decimal separator is a comma. Each of the files has two header lines.</strong></p>