The dataset includes search results from various databases—Scopus, Web of Science, Scilit, Springer, and ACS Publications—using the keywords 'Polymer', 'Collector', and 'Flotation'. The dataset presents the number of publications per year across various databases, illustrating the growing interest in research on polymeric collectors in flotation. Each publication in the dataset includes detailed information in rows such as authors, title of the publication, differentiation indicating if the polymer was used as a collector or another flotation reagent, DOI (Digital Object Identifier), name of the database, and keywords used for the search.