Research dataset
Dataset - Human-Written Research Article Abstracts from the PLOS Corpus (Pre-2022) (135,712 words / 504 articles)
This dataset contains 504 abstracts from human-written research papers published in 2021 or earlier, sourced from the PLOS Corpus. Each abstract is included in its entirety, covering a wide range of graduate-level topics across Business, Humanities, Psychology, and STEM domains. The papers span 18 majors, including Biology, Computer Science, Economics, and Physics, among others.
The dataset comprises a total of 135,712 words, with individual abstracts falling into word count buckets of 400 to 800 words. All texts are non-ESL and are classified under the essay genre. This collection is ideal for studying academic writing patterns, abstract summarization, or domain-specific language use in published research.
Total word count: 135,712 words (reference / bibliography sections excluded).
Composition
Numbers in the table indicate article counts.
| Level | Domain | Major | Genre | Word count | human |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| PLOS | |||||
| graduate | Business | Economics | essay | 400 | 6 |
| Humanities | Communications | essay | 400 | 4 | |
| Criminal Justice | essay | 400 | 1 | ||
| History | essay | 400 | 1 | ||
| Political Science | essay | 400 | 2 | ||
| Sociology | essay | 400 | 3 | ||
| Psychology | Psychology | essay | 400 | 40 | |
| STEM | Biology | essay | 400 | 280 | |
| Biomedical Engineering | essay | 400 | 36 | ||
| Chemistry | essay | 400 | 1 | ||
| Civil Engineering | essay | 400 | 1 | ||
| Computer Science | essay | 400 | 12 | ||
| Data Science | essay | 400 | 17 | ||
| Environmental Science | essay | 400 | 15 | ||
| Health Sciences | essay | 400 | 79 | ||
| 800 | 1 | ||||
| Mechanical Engineering | essay | 400 | 1 | ||
| Nursing | essay | 400 | 2 | ||
| Physics | essay | 400 | 2 |