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Data Availability & Sharing Policy

The Health and Research Journal supports transparency, reproducibility, and responsible data sharing. Authors are encouraged to make the data and materials underlying their findings available whenever possible, subject to ethical, legal, and privacy constraints.

Data availability statement

All research articles should include a Data Availability Statement describing where and how the data (and, where relevant, code/materials) can be accessed, or why access is restricted.

The Data Availability Statement should be included in the manuscript (e.g., before References) and/or entered during submission.

Recommended options

Authors may choose one of the following approaches:

  • Openly available data: Data are publicly available in a repository (provide repository name, persistent link, and identifier such as DOI/accession number).

  • Available on reasonable request: Data are available from the corresponding author upon reasonable request, subject to ethics and data protection requirements.

  • Restricted access: Data cannot be shared publicly due to privacy, confidentiality, legal, or ethical restrictions (briefly explain the restriction and, where possible, describe whether de-identified or aggregated data can be shared).

  • No new data created: No new data were created or analyzed in this study (where applicable).

Human participants and sensitive data

For studies involving human participants, authors must ensure that data sharing complies with informed consent, ethics approval, and applicable data protection regulations. Authors should not share identifiable participant data. Where appropriate, authors are encouraged to share de-identified or aggregated datasets.

Code, materials, and protocols

Where applicable, authors are encouraged to share analysis code, study materials, and protocols in trusted repositories and to cite them using persistent identifiers.

Repositories

Authors are encouraged to use recognized repositories appropriate to their discipline (institutional, national, or domain-specific) and to ensure long-term accessibility through persistent links/identifiers.

Examples of Data Availability Statements

  • The data presented in this study are openly available in [repository] at [persistent link], identifier [DOI/accession].

  • The data are available from the corresponding author upon reasonable request, subject to ethics and data protection requirements.

  • The data are not publicly available due to [reason, e.g., privacy/confidentiality/ethics restrictions]. De-identified/aggregated data may be provided upon reasonable request where permitted.