Data Availability Statement
Data Availability Statement Policy
In accordance with TOP Guidelines, all submissions must include a Data Availability Statement to promote research transparency and reproducibility.
Requirement
A Data Availability Statement is mandatory for all manuscripts, placed after the Conclusion section and before References, regardless of whether data is publicly available.
Example Statements
| Situation | Example Statement |
|---|---|
| Data publicly available | "The data supporting this study are available at [repository] at [DOI/URL]." |
| Data available on request | "Data are available from the corresponding author upon reasonable request." |
| Confidential data | "Data are not publicly available due to [reason] but are available from the corresponding author with permission of [third party]." |
| No new data | "No new data were generated or analyzed in support of this research." |
Recommended Repositories
Zenodo (free, DOI-issuing) | Open Science Framework (free, supports preregistration) | figshare (free, all file types) | Harvard Dataverse (free, academic focus)
Research Materials Sharing
Authors are encouraged to share research materials (survey instruments, coding schemes, analysis scripts) in the same repository as the data, consistent with TOP Guidelines Level 1.