  The study aims to highlight the growth and development of Indo-German
collaborative research over the past three decades. Moreover, this study
encompasses an in-depth examination of funding acknowledgements to gain
valuable insights into the financial support that underpins these collaborative
endeavors. Together with this paper, we provide an openly accessible dataset of
Indo-German research articles for further and reproducible research activities
(the "Indo-German Literature Dataset"). The data were retrieved from the Web of
Science (WoS) database from the year 1990 till the 30th of November 2022. A
total of 36,999 records were retrieved against the employed query. Acknowledged
entities were extracted using a NER model specifically trained for this task.
Interrelations between the extracted entities and scientific domains, lengths
of acknowledgement texts, number of authors and affiliations, number of
citations, and gender of the first author, as well as collaboration patterns
between Indian and German funders were examined. The study brings to light that
Physics, Chemistry, Materials Science, Astronomy and Astrophysics, and
Engineering prominently dominate the Indo-German collaborative research. The
United States, followed by England and France, are the most active
collaborators in Indian and German research. Additionally, relations between
entity, entity type, and scientific domain, were discovered. The study
highlights a deeper understanding of the composition of the Indo-German
collaborative research landscape of the last 30 years and its significance in
advancing scientific knowledge and fostering international partnerships.
Furthermore, we provide an open version of the original WoS dataset. The
Indo-German Literature Dataset consists of 22,844 articles from OpenAlex and is
available for related studies like literature studies and Scientometrics.
