Data from: Evaluating sustainability indicators employed across European arable agricultural research

How to cite this Dataset

Hockenhull, Imogen (2026): Data from: Evaluating sustainability indicators employed across European arable agricultural research. University of Reading. Dataset. https://doi.org/10.17864/1947.001491

Description

The assessment and quantification of agricultural sustainability remain disjointed with many methodological frameworks used by the research community. Defining ‘indicators’ as measurable variables used to assess targeted areas of sustainability, this study used a systematic approach to extract studies simultaneously employing indicators across social, economic, and environmental pillars of sustainability to assess the farm-level performance of European arable agriculture.

A search of the databases: Web of Science, Google Scholar, Scopus and CABI, was undertaken and a range of publications employing 22 different frameworks and 1138 indicators was identified.

These resources provide:

- The full literature list following a systematic PRISMA search and all exclusion decisions.

- Data relating to the sustainability assessments used throughout the final literature selection including any pre-established assessment tools used, indicator weighting methods, total indicator count, sustainability pillar indicator count, and original thematic groupings, indicators and where available indicator methods as reported by the authors. As well as new overarching Themes, Categories and Sub-categories assigned to each indicator by the primary author.

- A keyword assignment codebook corresponding to the overarching keywords given to each subcategory and all indicators within that group.

Resource Type:

Dataset

Creators:

Hockenhull, Imogen