Harmonized techno-economic dataset of small hydropower: 930 cases from 252 published assessments (data and code)

Abstract

What is here: A harmonised case-level techno-economic dataset of 930 cases from 252 peer-reviewed studies, in which every monetary value is converted to constant 2024 US dollars by a documented two-step workflow, the official period-average exchange rate for each value's own reference year, then deflation by the US consumer price index, and every extracted number is tied to a verbatim quotation from its source. The deposit also carries the extraction workbook that is the sole input to the analysis, the analysis code in R, the harmonisation and conversion logs, the source-traceability quality control, the blind independent re-extraction and its scoring, the thematic coding instrument and its independent re-application, the screening record for all 1,203 screened records, and the completed PRISMA 2020 checklist. Reproducibility. Rscript run_from_excel.R regenerates every table, figure and reported number in Section 3 of the article from the workbook alone, and checks each against its published value: 315 of 315 validation targets pass, and the script exits non-zero if any fails. Start with README.md, which documents the pipeline stage by stage, the contents of every file, and where each claim in the article is evidenced. DATASETS.md inventories the data. The source PDFs from which the extraction was made are third-party copyright and are not included; every extracted value carries the quotation it was read from, so any figure can be checked against its source without redistributing the paper.