ISA Literature Screening Dataset

Introduction

Every five to ten years, the United States Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) synthesizes the most recent scientific research for six air pollutants (nitrogen oxides, sulfur oxides, particulate matter, carbon monoxide, ozone, and lead). Officially called the Integrated Science Assessments (ISAs), these documents aim to provide an updated, comprehensive understanding of the health and welfare effects of these air pollutants, which lays the scientific foundation for related environmental policies.

This page provides the literature screening datasets for 2013 and 2020 ISAs for Ozone and Related Photochemical Oxidants. This goal is to promote research and development of computational techniques to help EPA scientists more efficiently screen scientific publications to find policy-relevant ones to be referenced in future ISAs. This resource is useful for researchers in applied machine learning, natural language processing, information retrieval, and digital libraries communities.

07/01/2022: The dataset is now published on data.gov!

Data description page on data.gov: [link]

2013 Ozone ISA Data

Reference metadata: CSV format, 17 MB (18122145 bytes) [download]
Citation context: CSV format, 8 MB (8347768 bytes) [download]
Semantic map: CSV format, 72 KB (73786 bytes) [download]

2020 Ozone ISA Data

Reference metadata: CSV format, 251 MB (262759346 bytes) [download]
Citation context: CSV format, 3.2 MB (3320747 bytes) [download]
Semantic map: CSV format, 125 KB (128504 bytes) [download]

Data Dictionary

PDF file: [download]

This work is a collaboration between the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and the United States Environmental Protection Agency. If you would like to share feedback or report issues, please send your e-mail to wangyue [AT] unc [DOT] edu.