These files include the data from the "The societal impact of Open Science - a scoping review", part of a series of studies conducetd within the PathOS Horizon Europe project on the academic, economic, and societal impacts of Open Science. This study was conducted in two phases. In phase 1 an academic database search was conducted. For phase 2 an automatic snowball search was performed based on results from phase 1 ( and grey literature was searched manually. The upload contains five files: Main file with extracted information for the 485 studies included in the review ("academic_impact_included_all_data.csv"). Excel file documenting the grey literature search ("Grey_Literature_Search.xlsx"). R project for the snowball search ("academic_impact_snowball.zip"). R project for cleaning data and producing summaries and figures ("academic_impact_stats.zip"). Excel file mapping the frascati codes used in file (1) to their textual representations ("Frascati definitions.xlsx") For more details on the methods see the protocol and its addendum. For the background, results and discussion see the deliverable (reporting on phase 1) and the pre-print.