Data Sharing Policy

Skyfox Publishing Group journals have policies on data sharing which state how data associated with your article should be shared.

About this policy 

Authors are encouraged to share or make available any data and materials supporting the results or analyses presented in their paper.

Please note that data should only be shared if it is ethically correct to do so, where this does not violate the protection of human subjects, or other valid ethical, privacy, or security concerns.

Depositing data

Authors are advised to deposit data in a recognized data repository that can mint a persistent digital identifier, such as a digital object identifier (DOI), and recognizes a long-term preservation plan.

We highly encourage researchers to consider the FAIR Data Principles when depositing data. We further advise researchers use FAIRsharing and re3data.org to search for a suitable repository – both provide a list of certified data repositories.

Data availability statement (DAS)

Authors are encouraged to provide a data availability statement, detailing where data associated with a paper can be found and how it can be accessed. If data cannot be made open, authors should state why in the data availability statement. Guidance and templates to help with preparing your data availability statement are available here.

Data citation

Skyfox Publishing Group supports the Force 11 Joint Declaration of Citation Principles, which recognize data as important, citable products of research, and that data citations should be both understandable by humans and machine-readable.

Authors are expected to cite any datasets in the body of the article, with a corresponding reference in the reference list. Please refer to our data citation best practice.

Submission

At the point of submission, you will be encouraged to provide the DOI, pre-registered DOI, hyperlink, or other persistent identifier associated with the data set(s). If you have selected to provide a pre-registered DOI, please be prepared to share the reviewer URL associated with your data deposit, upon request by reviewers.

Peer review

It is the author’s responsibility to ensure the soundness of any data. Any errors in the data rest solely with the producers of the dataset(s). Peer reviewers and editors will be considering a manuscript’s data availability statement and whether the authors have complied with the journal’s data sharing policy.

Support

If you need support with this policy, please email us datasharing@skyfox.org.in