Subject area	Biology
More specific subject area	Children׳s brain tumours - Medulloblastoma
Type of data	Excel file
How data was acquired	Systematic search of Web of Science, Google Scholar and Scopus databases
Data format	Raw, analysed
Experimental factors	The name of each cell line was searched along with the term medulloblastoma
Experimental features	Raw data were transformed to number of citations per year since cell line derivation or publication
Data source location	Nottingham, UK
Data accessibility	Data is shared within this article