Data Availability Statement Policy

Data Availability Statement Policy

JSRTH encourages authors to make the data underlying their research openly available wherever legally and ethically permissible. Authors are required to include a Data Availability Statement in their manuscript as a separate section before the References.

Acceptable Data Availability Statements:

• "The data that support the findings of this study are openly available in [repository name] at [DOI/URL]."
• "The data that support the findings of this study are available from [institution] but restrictions apply to the availability of these data. Data are however available from the authors upon reasonable request and with permission of [institution]."
• "All data are contained within the manuscript."
• "No new data were generated for this study. This is a review/conceptual paper."

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