Publishing a Data Article

Open Data
Author

Esther Plomp

Published

September 3, 2022

Publishing a Data Article

This post has been adapted from the Turing Way (The Turing Way Community, The Turing Way: A Handbook for Reproducible Data Science. 10.5281/zenodo.3233853) and a blogpost on Open Working under a CC-BY 4.0 licence.

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. 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 (The Turing Way Community 2022).

Options to publish a Data Article

Below you can find some journals that publish data articles. The costs information was collected in February 2022.

Discipline Publisher/Journal Cost estimate Deals for TU Delft
All Experimental Results £775 / €928 100% APC discount for TUD authors
All Scientific Data €1790 No, but eligible for the TU Delft OA Fund
All Data in Brief USD 500 / €440 100% APC discount for TUD authors
All China Scientific Data RMB 3000 / €416 No
All Data Science Journal £650 / €778 No, but eligible for the TU Delft OA Fund
All Data CHF 1400 No, but eligible for the TU Delft OA Fund
All GigaScience €1089 No, but eligible for the TU Delft OA Fund
All Gigabyte USD 350 / €308 No, but eligible for the TU Delft OA Fund
All F1000Research USD 800 / €704 No, but eligible for the TU Delft OA Fund
Archaeology Journal of Open Archaeology Data £100 / €120 No, but eligible for the TU Delft OA Fund
Archaeology Open Quaternary £300 / €359
Chemistry Journal of Cheminformatics 0 NA
Computer Science Jaiio variable No
Earth Sciences Geoscience Data Journal €1450 No, but eligible for the TU Delft OA Fund
Earth Sciences Earth System Science Data 0 NA
Earth Sciences Big Earth Data €910 No, but eligible for the TU Delft OA Fund

For more journals that offer the Data Article format you can see the ‘Data Article’ section in The Turing Way.