The metadata of books submitted as research outputs to REF 2014 and REF 2021

Abstract

This dataset contains ISBNs and below described metadata of 38,050 books which UK universities and research institutions submitted as their best research outputs to the UK's Research Excellence Framework (REF) in 2014 and 2021. The initial data was downloaded from the REF's webpages presenting the submissions and results for 2014 REF and 2021 REF. The thorough explanation how initial datasets were transformed into this dataset is provided in a preprint: Dagiene, Eleonora. 2023. "The Challenge of Assessing Academic Books: The UK and Lithuanian Cases Through the ISBN Lens." SocArXiv. https://doi.org/10.31235/osf.io/qpwxn This dataset contains ISBNs and their metadata, gathered from the Global Register of Publishers https://grp.isbn-international.org/.