Data Availability and Research Data Policy

DATA AVAILABILITY AND RESEARCH DATA POLICY

JPPS is committed to promoting transparency and reproducibility in research. Authors are encouraged to make the data underlying their published articles openly available where possible and ethically appropriate.

Data Availability Statement

All submissions must include a Data Availability Statement (DAS) at the end of the manuscript, before the References section. The statement should specify whether data supporting the findings are available, and if so, where and how they can be accessed.

Authors may use one of the following standard statements:

  • Data openly available: "The data that support the findings of this study are openly available in [repository name] at [URL/DOI], reference number [xxx]."
  • Data available on request: "The data that support the findings of this study are available on reasonable request from the corresponding author. [Restrictions apply / No restrictions apply.]"
  • Data not available: "No new data were created or analysed in this study. Data sharing is not applicable to this article."
  • Proprietary/confidential data: "The data underlying this article cannot be shared publicly due to [reason, e.g., privacy of research participants]. The data will be shared on reasonable request to the corresponding author."

Recommended Data Repositories

  • Zenodo (https://zenodo.org) — multidisciplinary, free
  • OSF — Open Science Framework (https://osf.io) — especially for psychology
  • Harvard Dataverse (https://dataverse.harvard.edu)
  • figshare (https://figshare.com)

Ethical Considerations

Where research involves human participants, personal data must be anonymized before sharing. Authors must comply with relevant data protection regulations (e.g., GDPR) and institutional ethics requirements.

This policy is subject to periodic review and is consistent with Scopus and Web of Science data transparency requirements.