Journal publishers data policies#

Here is a summary of relevant journal publishers data policies. Please note that while we do our best to interpret the policies and review these summaries, we cannot guarantee that they are always correct and up to date.

American_Geophysical_Union - AGU

Journals

  • Geophysical Research Letters

  • Journal of Geophysical Research: Atmospheres

  • Journal of Geophysical Research: Oceans

  • Water Resources Research

Open data policy

Guidelines

Some of the AGU journals also have their specific data guidance:

Requirements

  • No supplement is required, can be produced if data is new and not described in paper

  • DOI is not explicitly required

  • Software is required

American_Meteorological_Society - AMC

Journals

  • Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society

  • Journal of Climate

  • Journal of Hydrometeorology

  • Journal of Physical Oceanography

Open data policy

Guidelines

Requirements

  • Data Availability Statement is required

  • DOI is required, if possible, for both data and software

  • Software is required wherever is central to the research

CSIRO_Publishing - CSIRO

Journals

  • Journal of Southern Hemisphere Earth Systems Science

Open data policy

Guidelines

Requirements

  • No supplement is required, but data can be provided as supplementary material

  • DOI is not explicitly required

  • Software is required

  • Data Availability Statement is required

Elsevier

Journals

Guidelines

Requirements

  • No supplement is required, preferred approach is to share your data on the repository with DOI or publish in data journal

  • DOI is explicitly required

  • Software is not explicitly required

European_Geophysical_Union - EGU Copernicus publisher

Journals

  • Biogeosciences

  • Climate of the Past

  • Geoscientific Model Development

Open data policy For this publisher the policy depends on the journal

Guidelines

Requirements

  • No supplement is required if code/data is available from archive with DOI identifier

  • DOI is explicitly required

  • Software is required

  • Data Availability Statement required

  • If you have data you want to publish, they recommend submitting it to their partner journal Earth System Science Data (ESSD)

IOPscience

Journals

  • Environmental Research Letters

Open data policy IOP journals have a data policy that will be listed in the ‘about the journal’ section of their website. These will follow one of the following data policies:

For Environmental Research Letters the Data availability policy applies

Guidelines

Requirements

  • Supplementary data files are strongly recommended if their size is small (< 10 MB) otherwise use of a data repository is recommended.

  • DOI is not explicitly required but encouraged

  • Software is not explicitly required but encouraged

MDPI

Journals

  • Atmosphere

  • Applied Sciences

Open data policy MDPI does not have its own data policy, data requirements are covered as supplemental material. These requirements are based on the Transparency and Openness Promotion guidelines

Guidelines

Requirements

  • No supplement is required, but data can be provided as supplementary material if size is small (< 60 MB)

  • DOI is not explicitly required

  • Software is required

  • Data Availability Statement is required

Nature

Journals

  • Nature

  • Nature Climate Change

  • Scientific Reports

Open data policy

  1. Data sharing and data citation is encouraged

  2. Data sharing and evidence of data sharing encouraged

  3. Data sharing encouraged and statements of data availability required

  4. Data sharing, evidence of data sharing and peer review of data required with publishing in Scientific Data (see Data policies)

  • Specific journal policies are listed for each journal under editorial policies, they are in line with the main Springer Nature data policy, linked above. The following is an example for Nature journal: Nature reporting data

Guidelines

Specifically for software, some journals will peer review code:

Requirements

  • No supplement is required but Nature Research journals encourage authors to consider the publication of a Data Descriptor in Scientific Data to increase transparency and enhance the re-use value of data sets used in their papers.

  • DOI is not explicitly required

  • Software is explicitly required

  • Data Availability Statement is required

Royal_Meteorological_Society - RMetS

Journals

  • International Journal of Climatology

  • Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society

Open data policy

Guidelines NA

Requirements

  • No supplement is required

  • DOI is not explicitly required

  • Model code or software is seen as metadata rather than data

  • Data should be deposited in repositories that are permanent or have plans for succession

Springer

Journals

  • Climate Dynamics

  • Climatic Change

Open data policy

  1. Data sharing and data citation is encouraged

  2. Data sharing and evidence of data sharing encouraged

  3. Data sharing encouraged and statements of data availability required

  4. Data sharing, evidence of data sharing and peer review of data required with publishing in Scientific Data (see Data policies)

  • Specific journal policies are listed for each journal under “Submission guidelines”. They are usually in line with the type 3 data policy, as an example:

Climate Dynamics Research Data Policy

Guidelines

Requirements

  • DOI is not explicitly required

  • Software is not explicitly required

  • Data Availability Statement is required

Wiley_Blackwell - Wiley

Journals

  • Global Change Biology

Open data policy

This details 4 different levels of data sharing:

  1. Expects Data Sharing

  2. Mandates Data Sharing

  3. Mandates Data Sharing and Peer Reviews Data

  4. Information on which level is adopted is provided for each journal in the “Author guidelines: Editorial policies and Ethical Consideration” section.

The following is an example for Global Change Biology journal, which Mandates data sharing:

Global Change Biology data sharing policy

Guidelines

Requirements

  • DOI is not explicitly required

  • Software is explicitly required in some of the policies

  • Data Availability Statement is required in some of the policies