This collection contains the bibliometric dataset for the paper 'Adult Education Research between Center and Periphery – Publication Practices and Topics of Adult Education Researchers in Countries of the So-Called Global South' as well as all additional figures. Both components are organized in separate folders. The dataset includes all analyzed studies as plain text files (.txt) and their corresponding citation files in Resource Description Framework (.rdf) format. All figures are provided in both Portable Network Graphics (.png) and Scalable Vector Graphics (.svg) formats.