Gender differences are studied in academic literature from various angles, including the variances in publishing strategies between male and female authors. In many research communities, the quantity and quality of publications are detrimental to career development, academic position, and other factors. The quality of publications is, however, difficult to evaluate, and the impact factor of a journal is often considered a proxy for the journal’s quality. This article presents a dataset of 1,842 articles published between 2004 and 2017 on the topic of energy in Central and Eastern Europe in journals with assigned impact factors and listed in the Web of Science database. Previously published studies relied on machine-assisted assignment of gender, which has limited accuracy in assigning gender. We have manually collected English-language articles and coded the gender of their authors to overcome these challenges. This dataset presents data on articles (journal in which they were published, year of publication, impact factor of the journal, research area, etc.), as well as their authors (name of the first author and their gender, number of co-authors, names of all co-authors) and their gender. The article “Gender and authorship in energy studies: Is there an impact?” 1 uses this data as the principal source for its analysis.
Mišík et al. (2026) studied this question.