Software Engineering PhD and Licentiate Theses in Sweden: Publication statistics

This simple dataset contains publication statistics of Swedish PhD and Licentiate thesis in Software Engineering from 1999 to 2018. The contents of this dataset were discussed in a blog post on https://grischaliebel.de.

The data is offered in two formats, xlsx and csv, but with the same content. Names and affiliation are anonymised in the data set to prevent identification of subjects. In the following, we describe the content of the different columns in the table.

• Level: 'lic' for Licentiate theses or 'phd' for PhD theses
• Year: The year of publication of the thesis
• Included: The total number of papers included in the compilation-style thesis.
• Listed: Number of papers listed in addition to the included papers (basically "I have also published these, but they are not relevant to the thesis). Note that we cannot distinguish between cases, where no papers are listed because none are published, or because the author decided not to list them.
• IncludedPublished: The amount of included papers that are published or accepted for publication.
• IncludedSubmitted: The amount of included papers that in submission/under review.
• IncludedPublishedISI: The amount of included, published papers that are in ISI-ranked journals.
• IncludedPublishedNonISIJ: The amount of included, published papers that are in non ISI-ranked journals.
• IncludedPublishedConf: The amount of included, published papers that are in CORE-ranked conferences (any grade).
• IncludedPublishedWS: The amount of included, published papers that are in workshops. Non CORE-ranked conferences are counted as workshops as well.
• IncludedPublishedOther: The amount of included, published papers that do not fit in any other category (e.g., book chapters, technical reports).
• IncludedSubmitted*: Amount of included, submitted papers broken down by category (Journal, conference, workshop, and other).
• ListedPublished*: Amount of listed, published papers broken down by category (ISI/Non-ISI Journal, conference, workshop, and other).
• ListedSubmitted*: Amount of listed, submitted papers broken down by category (Journal, conference, workshop, and other).