Sharing your data through a Data Article#

A Data Article (also known as a Data Paper/Note/Release, or Database article) is a publication that is focused on the description of a dataset. It uses the traditional journal article structure, but focuses on the data-collection and methodological aspects and generally not on the interpretation or discussion of the results.

Motivations For Sharing Data through a Data Article#

Data articles are in line with the FAIR principles, especially since most publishers will encourage you to share the data through a data repository. The benefit of a Data Article is that your output will be peer reviewed, something which is generally not the case for datasets that are archived on data repositories. It also facilitates recognition for datasets through research assessment procedures that are more traditionally focused on publication output. Publishing a data paper will therefore increase the visibility, credibility and usability of the data, as well as giving you credit as a data producer.

You can find out more in our subchapter on publishing a data article or you can read a blogpost on ‘What a data paper could do for you’.

Options to publish a Data Article#

Below you can find some journals that publish data articles or papers. The costs information was collected in July 2023.

If you are planning to publish an analysis of your published data, it may be worth checking with the journal that they wouldn’t consider a data article on that dataset as ‘prior publication’ (see the F1000Research (non-exhaustive) list of journals on ‘prior publications’).

Discipline agnostic#

Discipline specific#

Discipline

Publisher/Journal

Cost estimate

Agriculture

Open Data Journal for Agricultural Research

?

Archaeology

Journal of Open Archaeology Data

£350 (see USD)

Archaeology

Open Quaternary

£300 (see USD)

Biodiversity

Biodiversity Data Journal

€650 (see USD)

Biodiversity

BioInvasions Records

~€840 (see USD)

Biodiversity

BioRisk

€450 (see USD)

Biodiversity

Biota Colombiana

0

Biodiversity

Check List

€250 (see USD)

Biodiversity

Mycokeys

variable

Biodiversity

Nature Conservation

€950 (see USD)

Biodiversity

NeoBiota

€950 (see USD)

Biodiversity

PhytoKeys

€780 (see USD)

Biodiversity

ZooKeys

€780 (see USD)

Biodiversity

Freshwater Metadata Journal

€0

Biology

Open Journal of Bioresources

£350 (see USD)

Biology (plant)

BMC Plant Biology

€2390 (see USD)

Biodiversity (forest)

Annals of Forest Science

€1750 (see USD)

Botany

Botanical Studies

€1790 (see USD)

Crystallography

IUCrData

USD 300

Chemistry

Journal of Cheminformatics

0

Chemistry

Chemical Data Collections

USD 800

Chemistry

Food Safety and Risk

€1890 (see USD

Chemistry

Journal of Chemical and Engineering Data

USD 5000

Chemistry

Journal of Physical and Chemical Reference Data

3500 USD

Computer Science

Jaiio

variable

Ecology

Ecological Research

USD 3000

Ecology

Ecology

variable

Ecology

Global Ecology and Biogeography

USD 4530

Earth Sciences

Geoscience Data Journal

€1390 (see USD)

Earth Sciences

Earth System Science Data

0

Earth Sciences

Big Earth Data

€790 (see USD)

Ecology

BMC Ecology and Evolution

€2090 (see USD)

Health

Open Health Data

£100 (see USD)

Humanities

Journal of Open Humanities Data

£485 (see USD)

Humanities

Research Data Journal for the Humanities and Social Sciences

?

Physics

Nuclear Data Sheets

USD 3900

Psychology

Journal of Open Psychology Data

£485 (see USD)

Psychology

Journal of Cognition

€1150 (see USD)

Zoology

Arxius de Miscel·lània Zoològica

0