README.txt file was created on 20190929 by Jeffrey Kushkowski
Revision: 20200210 by Jeffrey Kushkowski

----- GENERAL INFORMATION -----

# Data Title: Corporate Governance Data Set
# Project Title: Information Flows and Topic Modeling in Corporate Governance

#Data Abstract:
Data for this project was collected from the ISI Web of Science database. It includes excerpted Web of Science records that were used for the project, a list of fulltext files; 
data used to create a Sankey diagram, a table describing how categories from Harzing’s Journal Quality List were adapted for this project, and. . .

# Authors:

Jeffrey D. Kushkowski, Professor
Business and Economics Librarian
Iowa State University
152 Parks Library
Ames, IA 50011-2140
kushkows@iastate.edu

Charles B. Shrader, Morrill and University Professor
Ralph and Jean Eucher Faculty Fellow in Business Ethics
Department of Management
4562 Memorial Union
Iowa State University
Ames, IA 50011
cshrader@iastate.edu

Marc H. Anderson, Associate Professor
Deans Faculty Fellow in Management
3113 Gerdin Business Building
Iowa State University
Ames, IA 50011

Robert E. White, Lecturer of Management
3212 Gerdin Business Building
Iowa State University
Ames, IA 50011

Corresponding author: Jeffrey Kushkowski

# Data collection
ISI Web of Science Data was collected in 2013 and in January 2016 in Ames, Iowa. Data collected was based on a search for topics related to corporate governance:

DATABASE: Web of Science Core Collection
TOPIC: (“corporate governance” OR “agency theory” OR “director” OR “market for corporate control” OR “ownership structure” OR “executive compensation”) 
Refined by: WEB OF SCIENCE CATEGORIES: ( BUSINESS FINANCE OR BUSINESS OR ECONOMICS OR MANAGEMENT OR LAW )
Timespan: 1970-2015. Indexes: SSCI.

#FILE NAMES: Filenames use no codes or abbreviations.

# FILE LIST 
Corp_Gov_Data_Final.csv
File contains base data for this project. Files are records from ISI Web of Science based on a search for corporate governance articles. Web of Science records contain a subset of the full Web of Science record plus some author supplied fields.

Corp_Gov_Data_File.csv
Raw data file for project. Contains full bibliographic records including cited references for Web of Science search above.

Codebook_Corp_Gov_Data_Final.csv
File contains codebook for Corp_Gov_Data_Final

Corp_Gov_Full_Text_Files_List.csv
Files contains list of full text files used for this project.

Codebook_Corp_Gov_Full_Text_Files_List.csv
File contains codebook for Corp_Gov_Full_Text_Files_List

Corp_Gov_to_Web_of_Science_Field_Map.csv
Maps the variables used in the Corp_Gov_Data_File.csv data file to Web of Science Core Collection Field Tags. 

Matched_Articles_Cited_References.csv
File contains matched article/ cited reference pairs used to create Sankey diagram.

Codebook_Matched_Articles_Cited_References.csv
Codebook for matched article/ cited reference file

Codebook_Harzing_Categories.csv
Codebook describing Harzing Subject Categories

Sankey_Diagram_Data Flow.pdf
Diagram from the Sankey article/ cited reference dataset Stata analysis



----- CODEBOOK -----  

Codebooks for each data set are included in the file directory and are designated as "_codebook"

----- METHODS AND MATERIALS -----  
------- SOFTWARE -------
Name: Stata
Version: 15
System Requirements: 
URL: http://www.stata.com