News · 2 July 2026
Nekropolis is now published in Data in Brief
The final open-access version of Nekropolis: a cross-domain dataset of computer-science retractions and AI-governance lifecycle records (2018–2026) is online in Data in Brief as volume 67, article 113041.
- Article DOI
- 10.1016/j.dib.2026.113041
- Publisher page
- ScienceDirect article page
- Dataset
- Zenodo v0.3 · concept DOI 10.5281/zenodo.20405511
Nekropolis is a curated public-record corpus of 14,923 artifacts from 2018-2026 that were retracted, withdrawn, revoked, archived, or discontinued across computer-science retractions, AI-governance records, trusted-service lifecycle changes, withdrawn benchmarks, archived governance repositories, and related source families.
The corpus keeps source families visible rather than silently pooling unlike records. Each entry carries a category, lifecycle dates, source-stated reason where available, conservative project-inferred cause label, and hashed source pointers.
The evidence boundary matters: Nekropolis is descriptive infrastructure for reuse, audit, temporal testing, and source-stratified study. It is not an assessment of any person, institution, venue, repository, or service.
Citation
Sokolov, A. (2026). Nekropolis: a cross-domain dataset of computer-science retractions and AI-governance lifecycle records (2018-2026). Data in Brief, 67, 113041. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.dib.2026.113041
@article{sokolov2026nekropolis,
author = {Sokolov, Anton},
title = {Nekropolis: a cross-domain dataset of computer-science retractions and {AI}-governance lifecycle records (2018--2026)},
journal = {Data in Brief},
volume = {67},
pages = {113041},
year = {2026},
month = aug,
doi = {10.1016/j.dib.2026.113041},
issn = {2352-3409},
publisher = {Elsevier BV},
url = {https://doi.org/10.1016/j.dib.2026.113041}
}