Datasets

The dataset covers 13,528 records on "biomass" and "biofuel" research and technology from seven different publication, patent, funding datasets for the years 1901 to 2010.

Funding

National Institutes of Health (NIH) awards retrieved from the Scholarly Database (http://sdb.slis.indiana.edu) at Indiana University on 11/20/2010. Search query used was biomass OR biofuel OR "bio mass" OR "bio fuel" in the 'All Text' field.

National Science Foundation (NSF) awards retrieved from the Scholarly Database (http://sdb.slis.indiana.edu) at Indiana University on 11/20/2010. Search query used was biomass OR biofuel OR "bio mass" OR "bio fuel" in the 'All Text' field.

US Department of Agriculture (USDA) awards made available by a staff member of the Office of Scientific and Technical Information from the US Department of Energy (DOE).

Publications

MEDLINE papers by the National Library of Medicine retrieved from the Scholarly Database (http://sdb.slis.indiana.edu) at Indiana University on 11/20/2010. Search query used was biomass OR biofuel OR "bio mass" OR "bio fuel" in the 'All Text' field.

Web of Science (ISI) publications by Thomson Reuters retrieved from the Science Citation Index Expanded (SCI-EXPANDED), Social Sciences Citation Index (SSCI), Arts & Humanities Citation Index (A&HCI), by running a query "Sustainability" over the Title and Abstract fields on 4/30/2009. This data is identical to the one used in (Bettencourt and Kaur, 2010) but was restricted to those records that contain biomass or biofuel in any text field.

Department of Energy (DOE) publications made available by a staff member of the Office of Scientific and Technical Information from the US Department of Energy (DOE).

Patents

USPTO patents retrieved from the Scholarly Database (http://sdb.slis.indiana.edu) at Indiana University on 11/20/2010. Search query used was biomass OR biofuel OR "bio mass" OR "bio fuel" in the 'All Text' field.