Underlying datasets of paper Game elements enabling citizens’ engagement: an integrative literature review into elements, motivations, drivers and barriers

The datasets contain the underlying Integrative Review data of an article titled "Game elements enabling citizens’ engagement: an integrative literature review into elements, motivations, drivers and barriers" accepted at the 26th Annual International Conference on Digital Government Research (DGO 2025). Specifically, they contain the list of papers collected from Scopus and Web of Science databases, published between 2011 and 2024, processed through several stages of inclusion and exclusion, for analyzing drivers, barriers, and game elements of gamification citizen engagement.