The SciSO Dataset: Mining Science in Stack Overflow

Stack Overflow, often recognized as the go-to resource for software practitioners, has seen a growing trend of discussions around academic research. Yet, little is known about these academic references and how they intersect developers’ needs and interests. To bridge this gap, we presented a novel approach for identifying academic reference links and curated the first comprehensive dataset of academic references on Stack Overflow.

This dataset contains 19,582 academic references mined from Stack Overflow posts, answers, comments, etc. as of October 7, 2024.