Dataset categories
Browse research datasets by category, including categories with no mentions in the recent window. Each category lists its datasets and available research history.
Recent dataset mention rankings
| Category | What it covers | Datasets tracked | Recent papers |
|---|---|---|---|
| Analyst forecasts | Sell-side analysts' earnings forecasts, recommendations and price targets. | 2 | 0 |
| Asset pricing factor data | Published factor returns and anomaly portfolios used as benchmarks. | 5 | 0 |
| Bank regulatory data | Supervisory filings and balance sheets of banks, deposits by branch and credit registers. | 6 | 1 |
| Bond, loan and credit data | Corporate bond trades and terms, syndicated loans, credit default swaps and credit ratings. | 4 | 0 |
| Central bank and policy documents | Texts of monetary policy communication, legislation and party programmes, read with text analysis. | 7 | 11 |
| China court, registry and land records | Court judgments, business registration records and land transactions published by Chinese authorities and platforms. | 5 | 3 |
| China financial and firm databases | Financial statements, trading, ownership and governance data of Chinese listed companies. | 5 | 17 |
| China household and social surveys | Chinese household, ageing, health and social surveys. | 8 | 25 |
| China statistical yearbooks and regional indices | Province- and city-level statistics from Chinese statistical yearbooks, and regional indices built from them. | 7 | 16 |
| Commodity prices | Benchmark prices of crude oil, natural gas, metals and agricultural commodities. | 6 | 19 |
| Company financial statements | Balance sheets, income statements and other accounting data of listed and private companies. | 5 | 13 |
| Corporate filings and text | Annual reports and other regulatory filings, earnings calls, and the word lists used to read them. | 5 | 20 |
| Corporate governance and executive data | Boards, directors, executive pay, shareholder voting, audits and governance ratings. | 4 | 5 |
| Credit scoring and lending data | Loan-level lending data and the public datasets used to train credit-scoring models. | 8 | 8 |
| Cross-country social and attitude surveys | Surveys run in many countries on values, trust, well-being, financial inclusion and skills. | 8 | 24 |
| Cryptocurrency data | Prices, trading volumes and on-chain records of cryptocurrencies. | 6 | 2 |
| Cybersecurity and anomaly detection benchmarks | Network traffic, intrusion, fraud and anomaly records used to compare detection methods. | 6 | 1 |
| Developing-country household surveys | Household, health and living-standards surveys of low- and middle-income countries. | 7 | 17 |
| Education data | Student assessments and school and college records. | 5 | 3 |
| Energy and emissions data | Energy production, consumption and prices, and greenhouse-gas and pollution inventories. | 9 | 34 |
| ESG and sustainability ratings | Environmental, social and governance scores, controversies and carbon data of companies. | 10 | 1 |
| European and other national household panels | Household panels and surveys of Europe, Australia, Japan and Korea. | 10 | 35 |
| Face, person and video benchmarks | Faces, people, poses, facial expressions and human actions in images and video. | 5 | 9 |
| Financial data platforms | Commercial terminals and data services with prices, fundamentals and economic series. | 7 | 23 |
| Financial NLP datasets | Labelled financial texts used to train and test language models on finance. | 4 | 2 |
| Firm surveys and census data | Surveys and administrative records of firms and plants, including private firms. | 7 | 15 |
| Governance and institutional indicators | Country indices of governance, democracy, corruption, economic freedom, political risk and capital openness. | 9 | 18 |
| Graph learning benchmarks | Citation, molecule and other graphs used to compare graph neural networks. | 3 | 0 |
| Health data | Population health statistics, disease burden, health surveys and pandemic trackers. | 6 | 20 |
| Image classification benchmarks | Labelled image collections used to train and compare image classifiers. | 7 | 46 |
| Industrial fault and prognostics benchmarks | Bearing, engine, battery and process data used to compare fault-diagnosis and remaining-life models. | 7 | 3 |
| International trade and input-output data | Bilateral trade flows, tariffs, customs records and input-output tables. | 9 | 33 |
| Job postings and occupation data | Online job ads, occupational task descriptions, worker profiles and employer reviews. | 6 | 14 |
| LLM evaluation benchmarks | Benchmarks used to compare large language models on knowledge, reasoning, math and code. | 6 | 2 |
| M&A, IPO and private capital data | Deal-level data on mergers and acquisitions, equity and bond issues, venture capital and private equity. | 6 | 1 |
| Macroeconomic and development indicators | Cross-country series on output, prices, trade, population and development. | 7 | 78 |
| Medical and clinical datasets | Clinical records, medical images and physiological signals used in medical machine learning. | 10 | 24 |
| Mobility and location data | Phone-based foot traffic and movement data, public transit feeds and trip records of shared mobility. | 6 | 2 |
| Mutual fund and hedge fund data | Returns, holdings, flows and fees of mutual funds, ETFs and hedge funds. | 5 | 1 |
| Object detection and segmentation benchmarks | Images labelled with object boxes or pixel masks, including driving scenes. | 7 | 24 |
| Online experiment and survey panels | Crowdsourcing platforms and online panels where researchers recruit participants for surveys and experiments. | 6 | 23 |
| Online reviews, e-commerce and recommender data | Product and service reviews, ratings, purchases and user-item interactions. | 8 | 25 |
| Optimization benchmark instances | Standard problem instances for routing, scheduling and integer programming, and test functions for metaheuristics. | 9 | 2 |
| Options and volatility data | Option prices and implied volatilities, and volatility indices such as the VIX. | 3 | 15 |
| Ownership and insider trading | Holdings of institutional investors (13F filings) and trades by corporate insiders. | 2 | 3 |
| Patents and innovation data | Patent applications, grants and citations, and research and development records. | 6 | 11 |
| Public machine learning repositories | Repositories and competition platforms that host many tabular and other datasets. | 5 | 27 |
| Real estate and housing data | House prices and transactions, mortgages and rents. | 7 | 1 |
| Reinforcement learning environments | Simulators and benchmark suites for training and comparing reinforcement learning agents. | 7 | 3 |
| Remote sensing benchmarks | Hyperspectral and aerial image collections used to compare classification and detection methods. | 6 | 1 |
| Satellite and geospatial data | Night-time lights, land cover, satellite imagery and maps. | 6 | 24 |
| Search, news and web data | Search volumes, news archives and web content used to measure attention, news and sentiment. | 7 | 24 |
| Shipping, logistics and supply chain data | Vessel and flight tracking, freight rate indices and data on firms' supplier and customer links. | 6 | 3 |
| Social media data | Posts and activity from social networks and investor forums. | 8 | 66 |
| Speech and audio benchmarks | Speech, speaker and sound collections. | 6 | 4 |
| Stock market indices | Benchmark equity indices used as market returns, samples or index-membership designs. | 8 | 50 |
| Text and NLP benchmarks | Corpora and benchmarks for language understanding, question answering and text classification. | 9 | 2 |
| Time-series and traffic benchmarks | Collections used to compare forecasting and time-series classification methods. | 5 | 3 |
| Uncertainty and sentiment indices | Text- and survey-based indices of policy uncertainty, geopolitical risk, investor sentiment and financial stress. | 8 | 44 |
| US household and labour surveys | US panel and cross-section surveys of households and workers: income, wealth, spending, health and work. | 10 | 19 |
| US macroeconomic data | US national accounts, prices, labour statistics and expectation surveys. | 5 | 28 |
| US stock market data | Prices, returns, trading volume, quotes and shares outstanding of US-listed stocks. | 2 | 8 |
| Weather, climate and disaster data | Weather observations, climate reanalyses and projections, and disaster records. | 7 | 18 |
Cite this page
Scholar4AI. (2026). Dataset categories. Journal and Conference Research Rankings. Retrieved November 5, 2026, from https://scholar4ai.com/datasets
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title = {Dataset categories},
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note = {Journal and Conference Research Rankings; data from OpenAlex (CC0); licensed CC BY-NC 4.0}
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