Database of the article "The science of doubt: when climate sceptics cite science against itself"
Description
This Excel workbook contains the data, tables and rankings in the analysis of the scientific papers shared in the two reference subreddits of the climate-change debate: r/climateskeptics and r/Climatechange. The workbook uses three recurring labels: "PAPERS" for the articles themselves, "AUTHORS" for their authors, and "JOURNALS" for the journals in which they appeared. Each worksheet name carries a suffix denoting the subsample: "_only_ce" for papers cited exclusively in r/climateskeptics, "_only_cli" for papers cited exclusively in r/Climatechange, and "_common" for papers cited in both subreddits. "Cites_ce" and "Cites_cli" count the number of posts in which a paper, author or journal was mentioned in r/climateskeptics and r/Climatechange, respectively. The workbook contains 12 worksheets: "1. Materials and descriptives" — subreddit characteristics, and users and cited papers statistics. "2. PAPERS_only_ce" — DOI, title, author(s), journal, year and citing-post count ("Cites_ce") for the 1,204 papers cited exclusively in r/climateskeptics. "3. PAPERS_common" — same fields for the 557 papers shared by both subreddits, with counts for each ("Cites_ce", "Cites_cli"). "4. PAPERS_only_cli" — same fields for the 2,042 papers cited exclusively in r/Climatechange, with counts in "Cites_cli". "5. AUTHORS_only_ce" — the 6,147 authors cited exclusively in r/climateskeptics, linked to their Scopus profiles: "Papers" = number of papers by that author; "%" = percentage of the subset's papers authored or co-authored by that author; "Cites_ce" = total posts mentioning the author. "6. AUTHORS_common" — same fields for the 3,105 authors in papers shared by both subreddits; "%" over the 557 shared papers; counts for both subreddits ("Cites_ce", "Cites_cli"). "7. AUTHORS_only_cli" — same fields for the 10,929 authors cited exclusively in r/Climatechange; "%" over the 2,042 papers; "Cites_cli" = total posts mentioning the author. "8. JOURNALS_only_ce" — the 316 journals publishing papers cited exclusively in r/climateskeptics: "%" = that journal's share of the subset's 1,204 papers; "Cites_ce" = total citing posts for that journal's papers. "9. JOURNALS_common" — same fields for the 113 journals shared by both subreddits; "%" over the 557 papers; counts for both subreddits ("Cites_ce", "Cites_cli"). "10. JOURNALS_only_cli" — same fields for the 371 journals cited exclusively in r/Climatechange; "Cites_cli" = total citing posts for that journal's papers. "11. AltmetricVsScopus_ce" — the 166 outlier papers from r/climateskeptics combining below-median Scopus citations with above-median Altmetric Attention Scores, i.e. papers attracting more online attention than their academic visibility would predict. Fields: DOI, title, author(s), journal, year, Altmetric Attention Score (a weighted measure of online attention from news, social media and other sources) and Scopus citation count. "12. AltmetricVsScopus_cli" — the equivalent 300 outlier papers for r/Climatechange.