This file describes the underlying datasets that were used in the paper published in the International Journal of Electronic Government Research (IJEGR) Volume 16, Issue 3 titled "Citizen Engagement With Open Government Data: A Systematic Literature Review of Drivers and Inhibitors" and their structures. The datasets were produced during the inclusion and exclusion of publications in six stages, and after the extraction of data needed to answer research questions.

1. slr-stage-0 search results.xlsx
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This dataset contains information about all publications collected from searching the Scopus and Web of Science databases using specific keywords (please refer to the Section "Search Strategies" of the paper) in one tab "stage-0 search results."

Field				Description
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PubID				Identification number of the paper
Authors				Name of the authors
Title				Title of the paper
Year				Year the paper was published
Source title			Name of the journal or conference publication
Volume				The paper's publication volume number
Issue				The paper's issue number in the publication volume
Art. No.			The paper's article number in the issue
Page start			The paper's starting page number
Page end			The paper's ending page number
Cited by			Number of other papers that cite the paper
DOI				Digital Object Identifier
Affiliations			The name of institutions affiliated with the authors
Abstract			Abstract of the paper
Author Keywords			Keywords
Language of Original Document	Language used by the paper
Document Type			Type of the paper (Article or Conference Paper)
Access Type			Type of access to the paper (Open Access)
Source				Name of the database (Scopus or Web of Scopus)
EID				Paper unique identification specified by the database

2. slr-stage-1 source selection.xlsx
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This file contains two datasets: "results-stage-0-criteria" and "source selection criteria". 

dataset 1: source selection criteria
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This dataset contains the list of journal and conference publication source names and information about whether a source is excluded or not for further analysis.

Field				Description
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Source Title 			Name of the journal or conference publication
Excluded?			Decision of excluding or including a source: 
				- 'v' = a source is excluded
				- 'x' = a source is included

dataset 2: results-stage-0-criteria
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This dataset contains the search results (see 1. slr-stage-0 search results.xlsx) and information whether a paper is excluded or not based on the criteria set in dataset 1: source selection criteria.

Field				Description
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PubID				Identification number of the paper
Authors				Name of the authors
Title				Title of the paper
Year				Year the paper was published
Source title			Name of the journal or conference publication
Volume				The paper's publication volume number
Issue				The paper's issue number in the publication volume
Art. No.			The paper's article number in the issue
Page start			The paper's starting page number
Page end			The paper's ending page number
Cited by			Number of other papers that cite the paper
DOI				Digital Object Identifier
Affiliations			The name of institutions affiliated with the authors
Abstract			Abstract of the paper
Author Keywords			Keywords
Language of Original Document	Language used by the paper
Document Type			Type of the paper (Article or Conference Paper)
Access Type			Type of access to the paper (Open Access)
Source				Name of the database (Scopus or Web of Scopus)
EID				Paper unique identification specified by the database
Excluded?			Decision of excluding or including a paper:
				- 'v' = a paper is excluded because the source of publication is excluded
				- 'vv' = a paper is excluded because no information about source of publication is available
				- 'vvv' = a paper is excluded because the length of the source of publication exceeds 256 characters
				- 'x' = a paper is included
Remarks				Information about the inclusion and exclusion criteria

3. slr-stage-2 remove duplicates.xlsx
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This file contains three datasets: "results-stage-1", "results-stage-1-criteria" and "results-stage-2". 

dataset 1: results-stage-1
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This dataset contains the results of the first stage of exclusion and inclusion (see dataset 2: results-stage-0-criteria in slr-stage-1 source selection.xlsx). The excluded papers are already removed from the dataset, hence it only shows the included papers. 

Field				Description
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PubID				Identification number of the paper
Authors				Name of the authors
Title				Title of the paper
Year				Year the paper was published
Source title			Name of the journal or conference publication
Volume				The paper's publication volume number
Issue				The paper's issue number in the publication volume
Art. No.			The paper's article number in the issue
Page start			The paper's starting page number
Page end			The paper's ending page number
Cited by			Number of other papers that cite the paper
DOI				Digital Object Identifier
Affiliations			The name of institutions affiliated with the authors
Abstract			Abstract of the paper
Author Keywords			Keywords
Language of Original Document	Language used by the paper
Document Type			Type of the paper (Article or Conference Paper)
Access Type			Type of access to the paper (Open Access)
Source				Name of the database (Scopus or Web of Scopus)

dataset 2: results-stage-1-criteria
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This dataset contains the results of stage 1 (see dataset 1: results-stage-1) and information whether a paper is duplicated or not, and hence information whether a paper is excluded or not based on the existence of duplicates.

Field				Description
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Duplicate?			Information whether a paper is duplicated or not
				- 'v' = a paper is a duplicate
				- (blank) = a paper is not a duplicate
Excluded?			Decision of excluding or including a paper:
				- 'v' = a paper is excluded because it is duplicated
				- 'x' = a paper is included
PubID				Identification number of the paper
Authors				Name of the authors
Title				Title of the paper
Year				Year the paper was published
Source title			Name of the journal or conference publication
Volume				The paper's publication volume number
Issue				The paper's issue number in the publication volume
Art. No.			The paper's article number in the issue
Page start			The paper's starting page number
Page end			The paper's ending page number
Cited by			Number of other papers that cite the paper
DOI				Digital Object Identifier
Affiliations			The name of institutions affiliated with the authors
Abstract			Abstract of the paper
Author Keywords			Keywords
Language of Original Document	Language used by the paper
Document Type			Type of the paper (Article or Conference Paper)
Access Type			Type of access to the paper (Open Access)
Source				Name of the database (Scopus or Web of Scopus)
Shortened title			Formatted paper title in lowercase in which symbols are also removed

dataset 3: results-stage-2
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This dataset contains the results of the second stage of duplicates removal (see dataset 2: results-stage-1-criteria). The excluded papers are already removed from the dataset, hence it only shows the included papers. 

Field				Description
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PubID				Identification number of the paper
Authors				Name of the authors
Title				Title of the paper
Year				Year the paper was published
Source title			Name of the journal or conference publication
Volume				The paper's publication volume number
Issue				The paper's issue number in the publication volume
Art. No.			The paper's article number in the issue
Page start			The paper's starting page number
Page end			The paper's ending page number
Cited by			Number of other papers that cite the paper
DOI				Digital Object Identifier
Affiliations			The name of institutions affiliated with the authors
Abstract			Abstract of the paper
Author Keywords			Keywords
Language of Original Document	Language used by the paper
Document Type			Type of the paper (Article or Conference Paper)
Access Type			Type of access to the paper (Open Access)
Source				Name of the database (Scopus or Web of Scopus)

4. slr-stage-3 remove non conference non journal.xlsx
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This file contains two datasets: "results-stage-2 criteria" and "results-stage-3". 

dataset 1: results-stage-2 criteria
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This dataset contains the results of stage 2 (see slr-stage-2 remove duplicates.xlsx dataset 3: results-stage-2), information whether a paper is excluded or not based on these criteria: it is a research article (not one of these types: workshop, panel, editorial, poster, tutorial, position/essay), it is not a short paper, and it is not an ongoing research.
  
Field				Description
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Remarks				Information about assessment result that describes the type of the excluded paper
Excluded?			Decision of excluding or including a paper:
				- 'v' = a paper is excluded because it does not comply the criteria about the type of paper
				- 'x' = a paper is included
PubID				Identification number of the paper
Authors				Name of the authors
Title				Title of the paper
Year				Year the paper was published
Source title			Name of the journal or conference publication
Volume				The paper's publication volume number
Issue				The paper's issue number in the publication volume
Art. No.			The paper's article number in the issue
Page start			The paper's starting page number
Page end			The paper's ending page number
Cited by			Number of other papers that cite the paper
DOI				Digital Object Identifier
Affiliations			The name of institutions affiliated with the authors
Abstract			Abstract of the paper
Author Keywords			Keywords
Language of Original Document	Language used by the paper
Document Type			Type of the paper (Article or Conference Paper)
Access Type			Type of access to the paper (Open Access)
Source				Name of the database (Scopus or Web of Scopus)

dataset 2: results-stage-3
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This dataset contains the results of the third stage of irrelevant paper removal (see dataset 1: results-stage-2-criteria). The excluded papers are already removed from the dataset, hence it only shows the included papers. 

Field				Description
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PubID				Identification number of the paper
Authors				Name of the authors
Title				Title of the paper
Year				Year the paper was published
Source title			Name of the journal or conference publication
Volume				The paper's publication volume number
Issue				The paper's issue number in the publication volume
Art. No.			The paper's article number in the issue
Page start			The paper's starting page number
Page end			The paper's ending page number
Cited by			Number of other papers that cite the paper
DOI				Digital Object Identifier
Affiliations			The name of institutions affiliated with the authors
Abstract			Abstract of the paper
Author Keywords			Keywords
Language of Original Document	Language used by the paper
Document Type			Type of the paper (Article or Conference Paper)
Access Type			Type of access to the paper (Open Access)
Source				Name of the database (Scopus or Web of Scopus)

5. slr-stage-4 remove irrelevant abstracts.xlsx
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This file contains two datasets: "results-stage-3 criteria" and "results-stage-4". 

dataset 1: results-stage-3 criteria
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This dataset contains the results of stage 3 (see slr-stage-3 remove non conference non journal.xlsx dataset 2: results-stage-3) and information whether a paper is excluded or not based on the criteria: it has a relevant abstract.
  
Field				Description
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Remarks				Information about assessment result that describes the abstract of the excluded paper
Excluded?			Decision of excluding or including a paper:
				- 'v' = a paper is excluded because its abstract is irrelevant
				- 'x' = a paper is included
PubID				Identification number of the paper
Authors				Name of the authors
Title				Title of the paper
Year				Year the paper was published
Source title			Name of the journal or conference publication
Volume				The paper's publication volume number
Issue				The paper's issue number in the publication volume
Art. No.			The paper's article number in the issue
Page start			The paper's starting page number
Page end			The paper's ending page number
Cited by			Number of other papers that cite the paper
DOI				Digital Object Identifier
Affiliations			The name of institutions affiliated with the authors
Abstract			Abstract of the paper
Author Keywords			Keywords
Language of Original Document	Language used by the paper
Document Type			Type of the paper (Article or Conference Paper)
Access Type			Type of access to the paper (Open Access)
Source				Name of the database (Scopus or Web of Scopus)

dataset 2: results-stage-4
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This dataset contains the results of the fourth stage of irrelevant paper removal (see dataset 1: results-stage-3-criteria). The excluded papers are already removed from the dataset, hence it only shows the included papers. 

Field				Description
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PubID				Identification number of the paper
Authors				Name of the authors
Title				Title of the paper
Year				Year the paper was published
Source title			Name of the journal or conference publication
Volume				The paper's publication volume number
Issue				The paper's issue number in the publication volume
Art. No.			The paper's article number in the issue
Page start			The paper's starting page number
Page end			The paper's ending page number
Cited by			Number of other papers that cite the paper
DOI				Digital Object Identifier
Affiliations			The name of institutions affiliated with the authors
Abstract			Abstract of the paper
Author Keywords			Keywords
Language of Original Document	Language used by the paper
Document Type			Type of the paper (Article or Conference Paper)
Access Type			Type of access to the paper (Open Access)
Source				Name of the database (Scopus or Web of Scopus)

6. slr-stage-5 remove irrelevant contents.xlsx
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This file contains two datasets: "results-stage-4 criteria" and "results-stage-5". 

dataset 1: results-stage-4 criteria
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This dataset contains the results of stage 4 (see slr-stage-4 remove irrelevant abstracts.xlsx dataset 2: results-stage-4) and information whether a paper is excluded or not based on the criteria: it has a relevant content.
  
Field				Description
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Excluded?			Decision of excluding or including a paper:
				- 'v' = a paper is excluded because its content is irrelevant
				- (blank) = a paper is included
Remarks				Information about assessment result of the content of the excluded paper
PubID				Identification number of the paper
Authors				Name of the authors
Title				Title of the paper
Year				Year the paper was published
Source title			Name of the journal or conference publication
Volume				The paper's publication volume number
Issue				The paper's issue number in the publication volume
Art. No.			The paper's article number in the issue
Page start			The paper's starting page number
Page end			The paper's ending page number
Cited by			Number of other papers that cite the paper
DOI				Digital Object Identifier
Affiliations			The name of institutions affiliated with the authors
Abstract			Abstract of the paper
Author Keywords			Keywords
Language of Original Document	Language used by the paper
Document Type			Type of the paper (Article or Conference Paper)
Access Type			Type of access to the paper (Open Access)
Source				Name of the database (Scopus or Web of Scopus)

dataset 2: results-stage-5
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This dataset contains the results of the fifth stage of irrelevant paper removal (see dataset 1: results-stage-4-criteria). The excluded papers are already removed from the dataset, hence it only shows the included papers. 

Field				Description
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PubID				Identification number of the paper
Authors				Name of the authors
Title				Title of the paper
Year				Year the paper was published
Source title			Name of the journal or conference publication
Volume				The paper's publication volume number
Issue				The paper's issue number in the publication volume
Art. No.			The paper's article number in the issue
Page start			The paper's starting page number
Page end			The paper's ending page number
Cited by			Number of other papers that cite the paper
DOI				Digital Object Identifier
Affiliations			The name of institutions affiliated with the authors
Abstract			Abstract of the paper
Author Keywords			Keywords
Language of Original Document	Language used by the paper
Document Type			Type of the paper (Article or Conference Paper)
Access Type			Type of access to the paper (Open Access)
Source				Name of the database (Scopus or Web of Scopus)

7. slr-stage-6 final forward backward.xlsx
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This file contains seven datasets: "backward-stage-6", "backward criteria", "backward results", "forward-stage-6", "forward criteria", "forward results", and "results-stage-6". 

dataset 1: backward-stage-6
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This dataset contains the results of backward search based on the result of stage 5 (see slr-stage-5 remove irrelevant contents.xlsx dataset 2: results-stage-5). Papers referenced by the included papers in stage 5 are listed in this dataset.
  
Field				Description
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Title				Title of the included paper in stage 5
Authors				Name of the authors of the included paper in stage 5
PubID				Identification number of the included paper in stage 5 
Year				Year of the included paper in stage 5 was published
Authors-BWD			Name of the authors of the paper from backward search
Title-BWD			Title of the paper from backward search
Year-BWD			Year of the paper from backward search was published
Source title-BWD		Name of the journal or conference publication
Volume-BWD			The paper's publication volume number
Issue-BWD			The paper's issue number in the publication volume
Art. No.-BWD			The paper's article number in the issue
Page start-BWD			The paper's starting page number
Page end-BWD			The paper's ending page number
DOI-BWD				Digital Object Identifier of the paper from backward search
Link-BWD			Scopus URL link to the paper from backward search
Abstract-BWD			Abstract of the paper from backward search
Author Keywords-BWD		Keywords of the paper from backward search
EID-BWD				Scopus/Web of Science identifier of the paper from backward search

dataset 2: backward criteria
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This dataset contains the results of the backward search (see dataset 1: backward-stage-6) and information whether a paper is excluded or not based on the asessment of its content.

Field				Description
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Excluded?			Decision of excluding or including a paper:
				- 'v' = a paper is excluded because its content is irrelevant
				- (blank) = a paper is included
Authors				Name of the authors of the paper from backward search
Title				Title of the paper from backward search
Year				Year of the paper from backward search was published
Source title			Name of the journal or conference publication
Volume				The paper's publication volume number
Issue				The paper's issue number in the publication volume
Art. No.			The paper's article number in the issue
Page start			The paper's starting page number
Page end			The paper's ending page number
DOI				Digital Object Identifier of the paper from backward search
Link				Scopus URL link to the paper from backward search
Abstract			Abstract of the paper from backward search
Author Keywords			Keywords of the paper from backward search
EID				Scopus/Web of Science identifier of the paper from backward search

dataset 3: backward results
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This dataset contains the final results of the backward search that are included for further analysis. 

Field				Description
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Authors				Name of the authors of the paper from backward search
Title				Title of the paper from backward search
Year				Year of the paper from backward search was published
Source title			Name of the journal or conference publication
Volume				The paper's publication volume number
Issue				The paper's issue number in the publication volume
Art. No.			The paper's article number in the issue
Page start			The paper's starting page number
Page end			The paper's ending page number
DOI				Digital Object Identifier of the paper from backward search
Link				Scopus URL link to the paper from backward search
Abstract			Abstract of the paper from backward search
Author Keywords			Keywords of the paper from backward search
EID				Scopus/Web of Science identifier of the paper from backward search

dataset 4: forward-stage-6
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This dataset contains the results of forward search based on the result of stage 5 (see slr-stage-5 remove irrelevant contents.xlsx dataset 2: results-stage-5). Papers cited the included papers in stage 5 are listed in this dataset.
  
Field				Description
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Title				Title of the included paper in stage 5
Authors				Name of the authors of the included paper in stage 5
PubID				Identification number of the included paper in stage 5 
Year				Year of the included paper in stage 5 was published
Authors-FWD			Name of the authors of the paper from forward search
Title-FWD			Title of the paper from forward search
Year-FWD			Year of the paper from forward search was published
Source title-FWD		Name of the journal or conference publication
Volume-FWD			The paper's publication volume number
Issue-FWD			The paper's issue number in the publication volume
Art. No.-FWD			The paper's article number in the issue
Page start-FWD			The paper's starting page number
Page end-FWD			The paper's ending page number
DOI-FWD				Digital Object Identifier of the paper from forward search
Link-FWD			Scopus URL link to the paper from forward search
Abstract-FWD			Abstract of the paper from forward search
Author Keywords-FWD		Keywords of the paper from forward search
EID-FWD				Scopus/Web of Science identifier of the paper from forward search

dataset 5: forward criteria
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This dataset contains the results of the forward search (see dataset 3: forward-stage-6) and information whether a paper is excluded or not based on the asessment of its content.

Field				Description
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Excluded?			Decision of excluding or including a paper:
				- 'v' = a paper is excluded because its content is irrelevant
				- (blank) = a paper is included
Authors				Name of the authors of the paper from forward search
Title				Title of the paper from forward search
Year				Year of the paper from forward search was published
Source title			Name of the journal or conference publication
Volume				The paper's publication volume number
Issue				The paper's issue number in the publication volume
Art. No.			The paper's article number in the issue
Page start			The paper's starting page number
Page end			The paper's ending page number
DOI				Digital Object Identifier of the paper from forward search
Link				Scopus URL link to the paper from forward search
Abstract			Abstract of the paper from forward search
Author Keywords			Keywords of the paper from forward search
EID				Scopus/Web of Science identifier of the paper from forward search

dataset 6: forward results
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This dataset contains the final results of the forward search that are included for further analysis. 

Field				Description
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Authors				Name of the authors of the paper from forward search
Title				Title of the paper from forward search
Year				Year of the paper from forward search was published
Source title			Name of the journal or conference publication
Volume				The paper's publication volume number
Issue				The paper's issue number in the publication volume
Art. No.			The paper's article number in the issue
Page start			The paper's starting page number
Page end			The paper's ending page number
DOI				Digital Object Identifier of the paper from forward search
Link				Scopus URL link to the paper from forward search
Abstract			Abstract of the paper from forward search
Author Keywords			Keywords of the paper from forward search
EID				Scopus/Web of Science identifier of the paper from forward search

dataset 7: results-stage-6
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This dataset contains the final results of the search comprised of papers included from the stage 5 (see slr-stage-5 remove irrelevant contents.xlsx dataset 2: results-stage-5), from the backward search (see dataset 3: backward results), and from the forward search (see dataset 6: forward results). 

Field				Description
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Authors				Name of the authors of the paper from forward search
Title				Title of the paper from forward search
Year				Year of the paper from forward search was published
Source title			Name of the journal or conference publication
Volume				The paper's publication volume number
Issue				The paper's issue number in the publication volume
Art. No.			The paper's article number in the issue
Page start			The paper's starting page number
Page end			The paper's ending page number
DOI				Digital Object Identifier of the paper from forward search
Link				Scopus URL link to the paper from forward search
Abstract			Abstract of the paper from forward search
Author Keywords			Keywords of the paper from forward search
EID				Scopus/Web of Science identifier of the paper from forward search
PubID				Identification number of the included paper in stage 5 