Authors are encouraged to share or make available any data and materials supporting the results or analyses presented in their article.

Please note that data should only be shared if it is ethically correct to do so, where this does not violate the protection of human subjects, or other valid ethical, privacy, or security concerns.

Authors are advised to deposit data in a recognized data repository that can mint a persistent digital identifier and recognizes a long-term preservation plan.

Research data can take many forms but is essentially the underlying evidence upon which the claims made in your publication rely?.

Sharing these data publicly helps to maximize the discoverability and impact of your research. It also improves the robustness of the research process, supporting validation, research transparency, reproducibility and replicability of results.  

Some funders and publishers now make data sharing a requirement and it’s become increasingly common place for some subject areas to make data available to everyone. 

It is the author’s responsibility to ensure the soundness of any data. Any errors in the data rest solely with the producers of the dataset(s). Peer reviewers and editors will be considering a manuscript’s data availability statement and whether the authors have complied with the journal’s data sharing policy.