Dataset for 'A Matter of Culture? Conceptualising and Investigating 'Evidence Cultures' within Research on Evidence-Informed Policymaking'

Introduction This document describes the data collection and datasets used in the manuscript "A Matter of Culture? Conceptualising and Investigating ‘Evidence Cultures’ within Research on Evidence-Informed Policymaking" [1]. Data Collection To construct the citation network analysed in the manuscript, we first designed a series of queries to capture a large sample of literature exploring the relationship between evidence, policy, and culture from various perspectives. Our team of domain experts developed the following queries based on terms common in the literature. These queries search for the terms included in the titles, abstracts, and associated keywords of WoS indexed records (i.e. ‘TS=’). While these are separated below for ease of reading, they combined into a single query via the OR operator in our search. Our search was conducted on the Web of Science’s (WoS) Core Collection through the University of Edinburgh Library subscription on 29/11/2023, returning a total of 2,089 records. TS = ((“cultures of evidence” OR “culture of evidence” OR “culture of knowledge” OR “cultures of knowledge” OR “research culture” OR “research cultures” OR “culture of research” OR “cultures of research” OR “epistemic culture” OR “epistemic cultures” OR “epistemic community” OR “epistemic communities” OR “epistemic infrastructure” OR “evaluation culture” OR “evaluation cultures” OR “culture of evaluation” OR “cultures of evaluation” OR “thought style” OR “thought styles” OR “thought collective” OR “thought collectives” OR “knowledge regime” OR “knowledge regimes” OR “knowledge system” OR “knowledge systems” OR “civic epistemology” OR “civic epistemologies”) AND (“policy” OR “policies” OR “policymaking” OR “policy making” OR “policymaker” OR “policymakers” OR “policy maker” OR “policy makers” OR “policy decision” OR “policy decisions” OR “political decision” OR “political decisions” OR “political decision making”)) OR TS = ((“culture” OR “cultures”) AND ((“evidence-based” OR “evidence-informed” OR “evidence-led” OR “science-based” OR “science-informed” OR “science-led” OR “research-based” OR “research-informed” OR “evidence use” OR “evidence user” OR “evidence utilisation” OR “evidence utilization” OR “research use” OR “researcher user” OR “research utilisation” OR “research utilization” OR “research in” OR “evidence in” OR “science in”) NEAR/1 (“policymaking” OR “policy making” OR “policy maker” OR “policy makers”))) OR TS = ((“culture” OR “cultures”) AND (“scientific...