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Research Data Management

A guide on managing, organising, sharing and preserving research data

What is a Data Journal?

Data Journals are peer-reviewed journals that focus on publishing commented and documented datasets rather than research based on said datasets. They are useful to show your contribution to open science when no specific publication came out of a specific data collection effort, but the dataset you created shows promise for re-use by many other researchers.

This list of data journals shows their diversity.

Some Data Journals of Interest

Data in Brief
"a multidisciplinary, open access, peer-reviewed journal, which mainly publishes short, digestible data articles that describe and provide access to research data"
https://www.sciencedirect.com/journal/data-in-brief

International Economics
This journal has a section dedicated to datasets and methods.
https://www.sciencedirect.com/journal/international-economics

Journal of Open Health Data (closed)
https://up-j-ohd.ubiquityjournal.website/

Journal of Open Humanities Data
"Features peer reviewed publications describing humanities data or techniques with high potential for reuse."
https://openhumanitiesdata.metajnl.com/

Research Data Journal for the Humanities and Social Sciences
A Diamond open access journal (no APC) published by Brill.
https://brill.com/view/journals/rdj/, soon moving to https://openjournals.nl/ (2025)

Scientific Data
A Gold open access journal (with APC) published by SpringerNature.
https://www.nature.com/sdata/