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Transparency and Openness Policy

The following standards are based on those proposed by the Center for Open Science (COS). For questions on compliance, please contact the editorial office.

Research articles should contain sufficient information to allow others to understand, verify and replicate new findings. Therefore:

  1. 1. Authors must make resources such as data, materials, protocols and software code available to readers without undue barriers to access. Such materials should be recognized as original intellectual contributions and afforded recognition through citation. See the When and how resources should be made available section for more information.

  2. 2. All data sets and program code used in a publication should be cited in the text and listed in the reference section. Information on any restrictions on the accessibility of the resources should be included. References for data sets and program code should include a persistent identifier, such as a Digital Object Identifier (DOI). Persistent identifiers ensure future access to unique published digital objects, such as a text or data set. Persistent identifiers are assigned to data sets by digital archives, examples of which include Dryad, Zenodo, Dataverse and the Open Science Framework.

Authors should also adhere to any additional requirements that may apply to them in the policies of their research funders and host institutions.

To demonstrate compliance with the policy above, you should include a Data Availability Statement at the end of your manuscript. If the data are available in a repository this should be stated with the persistent identifier. If the data are available as supplementary material, or is under embargo or cannot be publicly released for legal, ethical or other exceptional reasons, the data availability statement should make this clear. For examples of Data Availability Statements please see the example section below.

For further information on Wearable Technologies’ Transparency and Openness Policy please see the additional information document.


Data Availability Statements – examples

Availability of data

Template for data availability statement

Data openly available in a public repository that issues datasets with DOIs

The data that support the findings of this study are openly available in [repository name] at http://doi.org/[doi], reference number [reference number].

Data available within the article or its supplementary materials

The authors confirm that the data supporting the findings of this study are available within the article [and/or] its supplementary materials.

Data generated at a central, large-scale facility, available upon request

Raw data were generated at [facility name]. Derived data supporting the findings of this study are available from the corresponding author [initials] on request.

Embargo on data due to commercial restrictions

The data that support the findings will be available in [repository name] at [URL / DOI link] following a [6 month] embargo from the date of publication to allow for commercialisation of research findings.

Data available on request due to privacy/ethical restrictions

The data that support the findings of this study are available on request from the corresponding author, [initials]. The data are not publicly available due to [restrictions e.g. their containing information that could compromise the privacy of research participants].

Data subject to third party restrictions

The data that support the findings of this study are available [from] [third party]. Restrictions apply to the availability of these data, which were used under licence for this study. Data are available [from the authors / at URL] with the permission of [third party].

Data available on request from the authors

The data that support the findings of this study are available from the corresponding author, [author initials], upon reasonable request.

Data sharing not applicable – no new data generated

Data sharing is not applicable to this article as no new data were created or analysed in this study.