Replication Data for an analysis of research articles from computational mechanics, all using the software Pasimodo https://www.itm.uni-stuttgart.de/en/software/pasimodo/

Categories for analysing the articles: To understand the context of the citation, we classified the citations into referring and reuse. Where referring is meant to be, when a citation is used in a document to refer to another article, but the content of that article is not used to contribute or support the work at hand. The term reuse refers to the use of data, concepts, or theories previously established by others to enhance, sustain, or build upon for the own work. It can also mean that the referenced article is used to set boundaries or differentiate the current work from that of the cited article. To gain a more profound understanding of these purposes of reuse of other research, we defined a further subdivision of the term reuse: adjustment, application, assumption and comparison. In this way, adjustment refers to an existing concept, combined with something new to refer to the broader concept or idea, while application and assumption focus more on details. The term application employs when the reference was used for an existing concept that was incorporated into the work itself in the form of formulas, models, theories, or parameters. Unlike assumption, where an existing concept was referenced, which was incorporated into the model without formulas. Comparison is used for an existing concept to compare or validate its results, methods, or assumptions.

Overview_Articles_Research_Cases.csv contains the metadata about the analysed and a key to identify the articles. Evaluation_of_Articles_Research_Cases.csv contains further information about the scope of every article. Reuse_.csv contains the detailed analysis of the article (see method). Comparison_of_Articles_Research_Cases.csv includes data analysis across all Reuse_.csv files. in Reuse_in_Articles_Research_Cases.xlsx contains all files above.