Data availability statement policy

Mandatory data availability statement policy

IOP Publishing encourages all authors to make the data underpinning their article available to editors, referees and readers without undue restriction wherever possible.

For the following journals, authors must provide a data availability statement in their article that details whether data are available and, if so, where they can be found.

• Environmental Research Letters
• IOP SciNotes
• JPhys Complexity
• Machine Learning: Science and Technology

Authors of accepted articles in these journals may deposit their data and/or code free-of-charge in the IOP Publishing Figshare repository by following the link supplied during the article submission process.

For other IOP journals we strongly encourage the inclusion of a data availability statement, but it is not a requirement.

Permissible formats for data availability statements

Data availability statements should follow one of the following formats and should appear in their own section of the manuscript, between the Acknowledgments and the References.

Data availability statement

Choose one of the following five options:

• The data that support the findings of this study are openly available.
• The data that support the findings of this study will be openly available following a delay.
• The data that support the findings of this study are available upon request from the authors.
• Any data that support the findings of this study are included within the article.
• No new data were created or analysed in this study.

Please include the digital object identifiers (DOIs) of all datasets and/or code that are publicly available and specify the embargo period for any datasets subject to a delay before public release.

Citing data

Any data assigned a digital object identifier (DOI) by a data repository should be cited in an article’s reference list. Data citations should include the following minimum information: author(s), title, publisher (repository name), DOI.