Data sharing policy

Are there data associated with the article you’re submitting to The Primary Education Journal. The details on this page will help you get to grips with the policies and the steps you’ll need to take.

Sharing your data

Research data can take many forms but is essentially the underlying evidence upon which the claims made in your publication rely​.  

Sharing these data publicly helps to maximize the discoverability and impact of your research. It also improves the robustness of the research process, supporting validation, research transparency, reproducibility and replicability of results.  

Some funders and journals like The Primary Education Journal now make data sharing a requirement and it’s become increasingly commonplace for some subject areas to make data available to everyone. 

The following describes our basic data sharing policy. You’ll need to pay close attention to these instructions if you’re an author submitting to The Primary Education Journal.

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. The Primary Education Journal also supports Figshare for depositing data. In this regard, it is highly recommended that you consider Figshare first and foremost.

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. The DAS should be submitted within the article manuscript, before the ‘References’ section.

If data cannot be made open, authors should state why in the data availability statement. Access guidance and templates to help you prepare for your data availability statement.

Data citation

The Primary Education Journal 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.