CiteULike

Overview

Dataset name: CiteULike
Latest version: t
Available versions: a, t
Source: http://www.citeulike.ort/faq/data.adp

CiteULike allows users to create their own collections of articles. There are abstracts, titles, and tags for each article.

Citation

@inproceedings{DBLP:conf/kdd/WangB11,
author       = {Chong Wang and
                David M. Blei},
editor       = {Chid Apt{\'{e}} and
                Joydeep Ghosh and
                Padhraic Smyth},
title        = {Collaborative topic modeling for recommending scientific articles},
booktitle    = {Proceedings of the 17th {ACM} {SIGKDD} International Conference on
                Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining, San Diego, CA, USA, August 21-24,
                2011},
pages        = {448--456},
publisher    = {{ACM}},
year         = {2011},
url          = {https://doi.org/10.1145/2020408.2020480},
doi          = {10.1145/2020408.2020480},
timestamp    = {Tue, 06 Nov 2018 16:59:35 +0100},
biburl       = {https://dblp.org/rec/conf/kdd/WangB11.bib},
bibsource    = {dblp computer science bibliography, https://dblp.org}
}

@inproceedings{DBLP:conf/ijcai/WangCL13,
author       = {Hao Wang and
                Binyi Chen and
                Wu{-}Jun Li},
editor       = {Francesca Rossi},
title        = {Collaborative Topic Regression with Social Regularization for Tag
                Recommendation},
booktitle    = {{IJCAI} 2013, Proceedings of the 23rd International Joint Conference
                on Artificial Intelligence, Beijing, China, August 3-9, 2013},
pages        = {2719--2725},
publisher    = {{IJCAI/AAAI}},
year         = {2013},
url          = {http://www.aaai.org/ocs/index.php/IJCAI/IJCAI13/paper/view/7006},
timestamp    = {Tue, 23 Jan 2024 13:25:46 +0100},
biburl       = {https://dblp.org/rec/conf/ijcai/WangCL13.bib},
bibsource    = {dblp computer science bibliography, https://dblp.org}
}

Version: a

Data Sources

Name	Source type	Archive	URL	Checksum
ratings	HttpSource	False	https://raw.githubusercontent.com/js05212/citeulike-a/refs/heads/master/users.dat	md5:b384e22f3b6cd9d0c8e11a13066fe70e
citations	HttpSource	False	https://raw.githubusercontent.com/js05212/citeulike-a/refs/heads/master/citations.dat	md5:6635e40fc71f862d7338a6990535b99c
item-tag	HttpSource	False	https://raw.githubusercontent.com/js05212/citeulike-a/refs/heads/master/item-tag.dat	md5:600433234dda44e846a40aeb2b211ca3
mult	HttpSource	False	https://raw.githubusercontent.com/js05212/citeulike-a/refs/heads/master/mult.dat	md5:63cca7f5fee224c60eb79a92f1fbecd9
tags	HttpSource	False	https://raw.githubusercontent.com/js05212/citeulike-a/refs/heads/master/tags.dat	md5:406562795523497ec00aaa9121cc9b39
vocabulary	HttpSource	False	https://raw.githubusercontent.com/js05212/citeulike-a/refs/heads/master/vocabulary.dat	md5:4834ecd48c7d073180cdf30973937093
raw-data	HttpSource	False	https://raw.githubusercontent.com/js05212/citeulike-a/refs/heads/master/raw-data.csv	md5:ebef07c3e0eebd93b3adaf7ef710b58f

Resources

ratings

Type: interactions
Format: sequence_tabular_implicit
Required: yes
Source: ratings
Filename: users.data

Schema

col_sep: ' '

citations

Type: content
Source: citations
Filename: citation.dat

item-tag

Type: content
Source: item-tag
Filename: item-tag.dat

mult

Type: content
Source: mult
Filename: mult.dat

vocabulary

Type: content
Source: vocabulary
Filename: vocabulary.dat

raw-data

Type: content
Source: raw-data
Filename: raw-data.csv

Dataset Characteristics

Computed at: 2025-12-15

Metric	Value
n_users	5551
n_items	16980
n_interactions	204986
space_size	9.708551900257834
space_size_log	0.9871544566198973
shape	0.32691401648998825
shape_log	-0.48556645857607317
density	0.002174779785855497
density_log	-2.662584712332187
gini_item	0.3696468161800518
gini_user	0.4706337006537276
ratings_per_user	36.927760763826335
ratings_per_item	12.072202591283864

License & Usage

Please refer to the official dataset page for licensing and usage restrictions. http://www.citeulike.ort/faq/data.adp