Research Transparency — IJMEER | Data Sharing & Open Science

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Findable

Data is openly available and indexed in searchable databases

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Accessible

Data is open to all readers under CC BY 4.0 license

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Interoperable

Data uses standard, open file formats for reuse

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Reusable

Data includes clear provenance and licensing metadata

FAIR Principles for Research Data

All research articles must include a Data Availability Statement explaining where the research data can be found, or why data cannot be shared. IJMEER accepts the following types of statements: (a) "Data is available in a public repository at [URL]"; (b) "Data available upon reasonable request to the corresponding author"; (c) "No new data was created for this study" (for review/theoretical articles); (d) "Data cannot be shared due to privacy/ethical restrictions — [reason]".

IJMEER encourages (but does not require) preregistration of clinical trials, systematic reviews, and quantitative studies in registries such as ClinicalTrials.gov, PROSPERO, or OSF Registries. If your study is preregistered, include the registration number and link in the manuscript Methods section.

Authors are encouraged to share supplementary materials, survey instruments, analysis code, and computational scripts in open repositories such as GitHub, Zenodo, Figshare, or Dryad. Including a link in the published article increases reproducibility and citation rates.

Authors must provide sufficient detail in the Methods section for independent reproduction of results. Statistical analyses must report effect sizes, confidence intervals, and p-values where applicable. Qualitative studies must describe analytical procedures with sufficient transparency for methodological replication.

Authors must disclose any use of AI language models (ChatGPT, Gemini, etc.) in manuscript preparation. AI tools cannot be listed as authors. Authors are fully responsible for the accuracy and integrity of AI-assisted content. Disclose AI use in the Acknowledgements section: "AI writing assistance was used for [specific purpose] using [tool name]".