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title: "Dataset categories: research data and benchmarks"
description: "Browse research datasets by category, including categories with no mentions in the recent window. Each category lists its datasets and available research history."
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share_text: "Browse research datasets by category, including categories with no mentions in the recent window. Each category lists its datasets and available research history. (as of 2026-11-05)"
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window: 2026-10-07 to 2026-11-05
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# Dataset categories

[Browse individual dataset profiles](https://scholar4ai.com/datasets/directory.md)

Browse research datasets by category, including categories with no mentions in the recent window. Each category lists its datasets and available research history.

*All 63 dataset categories · recent papers: 2026-10-07 – 2026-11-05 (30 days)*

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

```bibtex
@misc{scholar4ai-datasets,
  author = {{Scholar4AI}},
  title = {Dataset categories},
  year = {2026},
  howpublished = {\url{https://scholar4ai.com/datasets}},
  urldate = {2026-11-05},
  note = {Journal and Conference Research Rankings; data from OpenAlex (CC0); licensed CC BY-NC 4.0}
}
```

License: CC BY-NC 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).