This dataset from the VIRTA Publication Information Service consists of the metadata of 241,575 publications of Finnish universities (publication years 2016–2021) merged from yearly datasets downloaded from https://wiki.eduuni.fi/display/cscvirtajtp/Vuositasoiset+Excel-tiedostot. The dataset contains following information: Organisation: name of the university Publication year: the year of publication Subfield: one of 66 fields of science based on Statistics Finland field of science classification (in Finnish), see the classification in English: https://www2.stat.fi/en/luokitukset/tieteenala/ Peer-reviewed: 1=peer-reviewed publications, 0=not peer-reviewed publications Science communication: 1=publications aimed at professional and general audiences, 0=peer-reviewed and not peer-reviewed publications aimed at academic audience. Bibliodiversity: 1=peer-reviewed book publications (chapters, monographs and edited volumes) and conference articles, 0=peer-reviewed journal articles. Multilingualism: share of peer-reviewed publications in languages other than English (Finnish, Swedish and other languages). Domestic publishing: 1=peer-reviewed publications in journals and books published in Finland, 0=peer-reviewed publications in journals and books published outside Finland. Domestic collaboration: 1=peer-reviewed publications with co-authors from more than one Finnish university, 0=peer-reviewed publications without co-authors from more than one Finnish university. International collaboration: 1=share of peer-reviewed publications with co-authors affiliated with foreign institutions, 0=share of peer-reviewed publications without co-authors affiliated with foreign institutions. Research performance: 1=peer-reviewed outputs in JUFO levels 2 (“leading”) and 3 (“top”) publication channels, 0=peer-reviewed outputs in JUFO levels 1 (“basic”) and 0 (“other”) publication channels. Open access: 1=peer-reviewed open access publications, including gold, hybrid and green OA, 0=peer-reviewed closed publications.