Using Open Citation Databases for Snowballing in Software Engineering Research

<p>Dataset for our study on the coverage of software engineering articles in open citation databases:</p> <ul> <li>a list of the 23 sampled venues with their respective CORE ranks and publishers, <ul> <li>01-venues.csv,</li> </ul> </li> <li>a list of the 204 sampled articles with their respective number of references/citations per citation database, <ul> <li>02-articles.csv (articles with publication information),</li> <li>03-references-absolute.csv (number of references in published PDF &amp; absolute numbers for reference coverage in databases),</li> <li>04-references-relative.csv (relative numbers for reference coverage in databases),</li> <li>05-citations-absolute.csv (absolute numbers for citation coverage in databases),</li> <li>06-citations relative.csv (relative numbers for citation coverage in databases),</li> </ul> </li> <li>a list of the 8 articles analyzed in more detail with complete references data from the citation databases, <ul> <li>07-selected-articles.csv (articles with publication information),</li> <li>08A&ndash;08H (comparison of references found in databases for each article),</li> </ul> </li> <li>and additional statistical measures and plots <ul> <li>09-Statistics.{pdf,xlsx} (statistical measures &ndash; i.e., minimum, maximum, median, average, variance &ndash; for the whole dataset and for subsets by publisher, CORE rank, or year of publication),</li> <li>10-Figures.zip (figures for references as shown in the study and additional figures for citations &ndash; each in EPS and PNG format).</li> </ul> </li> </ul>