A mixed-corpus scientometric dataset of precision livestock farming publications and patents, 2006-2025

This data article presents two harmonized corpora assembled from five major bibliographic and patent databases to support scientometric, bibliometric, and technology landscape research on Precision Livestock Farming (PLF) and farm animal welfare. The publication corpus (n = 1,738 records; 27 fields) integrates records retrieved from the Web of Science (WoS) Core Collection and Scopus, covering peer-reviewed articles published between 2006 and 2025. The patent corpus (n = 3,793 records; 24 fields) consolidates exports from Lens.org, Espacenet (EPO), and PATENTSCOPE (WIPO), spanning granted patents and patent applications filed across the same 20-year window. Both corpora underwent systematic cross-database deduplication, field-level harmonization, and quality verification prior to deposit. The deposited records represent the complete deduplicated dataset; the associated findings paper applies additional eligibility screening, yielding an analytical subset of n = 1,594 publications and n = 3,239 patents. Data are structured in CSV, with a detailed field dictionary, completeness statistics, and multi-valued field delimiters documented herein. Together, the corpora constitute the first publicly available mixed-corpus PLF dataset linking peer-reviewed academic output with patent activity, enabling replication of the analyses reported in the associated findings paper as well as independent investigations into topic modelling, co-authorship network analysis, technology forecasting, and longitudinal benchmarking of PLF innovation. All files are deposited on Zenodo under a CC BY 4.0 license.