Research Data
Data Papers
A data paper (data article, data note, dataset article, data original article, database article, etc.) describes a data set.
Todd A. Carpenter, Executive Director of the National Information Standards Organization (NISO), explains data peer review and highlights the trends in the publication of research data sets: What Constitutes Peer Review of Data? A Survey of Peer Review Guidelines.
More information:
Global Diversity Information Facility (GBIF). (2017). Data papers. https://www.gbif.org/data-papers
Candela, L., Castelli, D., Manghi, P., & Tani, A. (2015). Data journals: A survey. Journal of the Association for Information Science and Technology, 66(9), 1747-1762. https://doi.org/10.1002/asi.23358
Journals that publish data papers and articles
- F1000 Research"An Open Research publishing platform for scientists, scholars and clinicians offering rapid publication of articles and other research outputs without editorial bias. All articles benefit from transparent peer review and editorial guidance on making all source data openly available."
- Earth System Science Data (Copernicus)"An international, interdisciplinary journal for the publication of articles on original research data (sets), furthering the reuse of high-quality data of benefit to Earth system sciences."
- GigaScience (Oxford Academic)"An open access, open data, open peer-review journal focusing on ‘big data’ research from the life and biomedical sciences."
- The International Journal of Robotics Research (SAGE)"Also publishes high quality, peer reviewed datasets and multimedia extensions alongside articles."
Journals that publish only data articles
- Data in Brief (Elsevier)"A multidisciplinary, open access, peer-reviewed journal, which publishes short, digestible articles that describe and provide access to research data."
- Scientific Data (Nature)"Peer-reviewed, open-access journal for descriptions of scientifically valuable datasets, and research that advances the sharing and reuse of scientific data."
- Data (MDPI)"Peer-reviewed, open access journal on data in science, with the aim of enhancing data transparency and reusability."
- Geoscience Data Journal (Royal Meteorogical Society)"An open access platform where scientific data can be formally published, in a way that includes scientific peer-review."
- Chemical Data Collections (Elsevier)"A publication outlet for the increasing need to make research material and data easy to share and re-use."
- Journal of Chemical & Engineering Data (ACS)"Devoted to the publication of data obtained from both experiment and computation, which are viewed as complementary."
- Journal of Physical & Chemical Reference Data (AIP)"Provides critically evaluated physical and chemical property data, fully documented as to the original sources and the criteria used for evaluation, preferably with uncertainty analysis."
