The SCOPUS project is a data coding and management project for bibliometric assessment of scientific collaboration in the Gulf of Mexico. From the Elsevier's SCOPUS, the article information was extracted to know the co-authorship about the Gulf of Mexico. With the computer-assisted coding of this massive data, the center worked on data coding and clearing. If you have any questions about data construction, coding, and cleaning, please contact dongkyu.kim@utrgv.edu.