Sukkur Research Corpus: An Open Bibliographic Dataset and Synthesis of Research on Sukkur District, Sindh, Pakistan

The Sukkur Research Corpus is an open bibliographic dataset of 867 unique works mentioning Sukkur district, the Sukkur Barrage, or the Rohri-Aror region of Sindh, Pakistan, spanning 1879-2026. It covers journal articles (742), books (28), book chapters, reports, conference papers, theses and grey literature across public health, hydrology, economics, archaeology/history, agriculture, social sciences, engineering and related fields. Each record carries full citation metadata, a DOI or URL (450 records with DOI), and a 1-2 sentence contribution note written for this corpus. Publisher-written abstracts are excluded for copyright reasons; no full texts are redistributed. The deposit also includes 'Sukkur: A Research Monograph' (105 pages, 14 chapters), a synthesis of the corpus covering the region, the barrage and its commands, groundwater, environment and the Indus dolphin, archaeology of the Rohri Hills, history from Aror and Bhakar to the modern city, urban studies, public health, agriculture, climate and disasters, economy and society, geography/GIS, key researchers and institutions, and research gaps - with a subject-organized bibliography. Records were harvested in October 2026 from Scopus, Springer Nature, Semantic Scholar, OpenAlex, Crossref, Unpaywall and institutional repositories (World Bank, ADB, PCRWR, WAPDA, UNDP, WWF, IUCN, SMEDA, census reports, HathiTrust, Sindh heritage portal), extended the same month by 357 papers from a manual Google Scholar sweep and 24 Sindhi-language books (Sindh e-library, Sindhi Adabi Board, Internet Archive), deduplicated by DOI and normalized title, and relevance-filtered. Assessments resting on title/venue metadata alone are flagged as low confidence in the monograph; the work is a research bibliography and synthesis, not a peer-reviewed publication.