RESEARCH DATA POLICY

Research Data Policy

The Journal of Multidisciplinary Cases is committed to research transparency and reproducibility. Authors of all article types are required to include a Data Availability Statement in their manuscript.

Where to place the statement

The Data Availability Statement must appear as a separate section at the end of the manuscript, after the Conclusion and before the References section.

Acceptable statement formats

Authors should select the most accurate statement for their situation:

  • “The data that support the findings of this study are available from the corresponding author upon reasonable request.”
  • “All data generated or analysed during this study are included in this published article [and its supplementary information files].”
  • “The data that support the findings of this study are available in [repository name] at [URL/DOI].”
  • “The study used publicly available data from [source]. These data are available at [URL/DOI].”
  • “No new data were generated or analysed in support of this research.”
  • “Data sharing is not applicable to this article as it is a case study based on publicly available secondary sources.”

Open data encouraged

Authors are strongly encouraged to deposit research data, interview transcripts (appropriately anonymised), survey instruments, codebooks, and analysis files in publicly accessible repositories prior to submission and to provide a persistent identifier (DOI) in the Data Availability Statement. Recommended repositories include: Zenodo (https://zenodo.org), Figshare (https://figshare.com), Harvard Dataverse (https://dataverse.harvard.edu), and the Open Science Framework (https://osf.io).

Confidentiality and ethical restrictions

Where data cannot be shared due to ethical restrictions (e.g., participant confidentiality, third-party data licensing agreements, or commercial sensitivity), authors must state the reason in their Data Availability Statement and confirm that data are available to qualified researchers upon reasonable request subject to appropriate data sharing agreements.