TY  - JOUR
AU  - Adams,James D.
AU  - Clemmons,J. Roger
TI  - The NBER-Rensselaer Scientific Papers Database: Form, Nature, and Function
JF  - National Bureau of Economic Research Working Paper Series
VL  - No. 14575
PY  - 2008
Y2  - December 2008
UR  - http://www.nber.org/papers/w14575
L1  - http://www.nber.org/papers/w14575.pdf
N1  - Author contact info:
James D. Adams
Department of Economics
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
3406 Russell Sage Laboratory
Troy, NY  12180-3590
Tel: 518/276-2523
Fax: 518/276-2235
E-Mail: adamsj@rpi.edu

J. Roger Clemmons
Institute for Child Health Policy
College of Medicine
The University of Florida
PO Box 100147
Gainesville, FL 32610-0147
E-Mail: jrc@ichp.ufl.edu
AB  - This article is a guide to the NBER-Rensselaer Scientific Papers Database, which includes more than 2.5 million scientific publications and over 21 million citations to those papers.  The data cover an important sample of 110 top U.S. universities and 200 top U.S.-based R&D-performing firms during the period 1981-1999. This article describes the file system which comprises the database, explains the variables included in the files, and discusses the functions of the various files.  It includes numerous descriptive tables, as well as graphs of the data in the time series dimension.  In addition, it discusses limitations and strengths of the data as well as some questions that the data might be used to address.
ER  -