Data Sharing Policy
Open data policy
For clarification on result accuracy and reproducibility of the results, raw data or analysis data will be deposited to a public repository, for example, Harvard Dataverse (https://dataverse.harvard.edu/dataverse/jeehp/) after acceptance of the manuscript. Therefore, submission of the raw data or analysis data is mandatory. If the data is already a public one, its URL site or sources should be disclosed. If data cannot be publicized, it can be negotiated with the editor. If there are any inquiries on depositing data, authors should contact the editorial office
Clinical data sharing policy
JAMS follows the data sharing policy described in “Data Sharing Statements for Clinical Trials: A Requirement of the International Committee of Medical Journal Editors” (https://doi.org/10.3346/jkms.2017.32.7.1051). As of July 1, 2018 manuscripts submitted to ICMJE journals that report the results of interventional clinical trials must contain a data sharing statement as described below. Clinical trials that begin enrolling participants on or after January 1, 2019 must include a data sharing plan in the trial's registration. The ICMJE's policy regarding trial registration is explained at http://www.icmje.org/about-icmje/faqs/clinical-trials-registration. If the data sharing plan changes after registration this should be reflected in the statement submitted and published with the manuscript, and updated in the registry record. All of the authors of research articles that deal with interventional clinical trials must submit data sharing plan of example 1 to 4 in Table 1. Based on the degree of sharing plan, authors should deposit their data after deidentification and report the DOI of the data and the registered site.
Table 1. Examples of data sharing statements that fulfill these ICMJE requirements*
| Element | Example 1 | Example 2 | Example 3 | Example 4 |
| Will individual participant data be available (including data dictionaries)? | Yes | Yes | Yes | No |
| What data in particular will be shared? | All individual participant data collected during the trial, after deidentification. | Individual participant data that underlie the results reported in this article, after deidentification (text, tables, figures, and appendices). | Individual participant data that underlie the results reported in this article, after deidentification (text, tables, figures, and appendices). | Not available |
| What other documents will be available? | Study protocol, statistical analysis plan, informed consent form, clinical study report, analytic code | Study protocol, statistical analysis plan, analytic code | Study protocol | Not available |
| When will data be available (start and end dates)? | Immediately following publication. No end date. | Beginning at 3 months and ending at 5 years following the article publication. | Beginning at 9 months and ending at 36 months following the article publication. | Not applicable |
| With whom? | Anyone who wishes to access the data. | Researchers who provide a methodologically sound proposal. | Investigators whose proposed use of the data has been approved by an independent review committee (“learned intermediary”) identified for this purpose. | Not applicable |
| For what types of analyses? | Any purpose | To achieve aims in the approved proposal. | For individual participant data meta-analysis. | Not applicable |
| By what mechanism will data be made available? | Data are available indefinitely at (link to be included). | Proposals should be directed to xxx@yyy. To gain access, data requestors will need to sign a data access agreement. Data are available for 5 years at a third-party website (link to be included). |
Proposals may be submitted up to 36 months following article publication. After 36 months the data will be available in our University's data warehouse but without investigator support other than deposited metadata. Information regarding submitting proposals and accessing data may be found at (link to be provided). |
Not applicable |
ICMJE = International Committee of Medical Journal Editors.
*These examples are meant to illustrate a range of, but not all, data sharing options.
JAMS Expects Data Sharing
JAMS also follows the data sharing policy described in “Wiley’s Data Sharing Policies” (https://authorservices.wiley.com/author-resources/Journal-Authors/open-access/data-sharing-citation/data-sharing-policy.html)
| Data availability statement is published1 | Data has been shared2 | Data has been peer reviewed3 | |
| Encourages Data Sharing | Optional | Optional | Optional |
| Expects Data Sharing | Required | Optional | Optional |
| Mandates Data Sharing | Required | Required | Optional |
| Mandates Data Sharing and Peer Reviews Data | Required | Required | Required |
1 A data availability statement confirms the presence or absence of shared data.
2 Links to data in data availability statements are checked to ensure they link to the data that the authors intended. If data have been shared in a data repository, the data availability statement includes a permanent link to the data. Shared data is also cited.
3 Quality and/or replicability of linked data are peer reviewed. Depending on the journal, this may be to peer review the quality of the data by ensuring that the results in the paper and the data in the repository align (for example, sample sizes and variables match), or it may be to peer review the replicability of the data to ensure that the claims presented in the journal article are valid and can be reproduced.
JAMS expects that data supporting the results in the paper will be archived in an appropriate public repository. Authors are required to provide a data availability statement to describe the availability or the absence of shared data. When data have been shared, authors are required to include in their data availability statement a link to the repository they have used, and to cite the data they have shared. Whenever possible the scripts and other artefacts used to generate the analyses presented in the paper should also be publicly archived. If sharing data compromises ethical standards or legal requirements then authors are not expected to share it.
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Research Article2022-04-30
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