Data Policy

8 Data Availability and Reproducibility

The journal supports open science and FAIR data principles.

  • A Data Availability Statement is mandatory for all research articles
  • Data must be deposited in recognized public repositories (e.g., Zenodo, Dryad, Figshare). A Data Availability Statement including a persistent link or DOI is required in all manuscripts. Where datasets are formally published and citable, they must be cited in the text and included in the reference list.
  • A persistent DOI or access link must be provided
  • Where data cannot be shared, authors must provide a clear justification

Manuscripts without sufficient data transparency may be rejected.