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Data Journals

The cycles of research and publication processes in specific disciplines of science often significantly differ from one another. The time when data was shared and appeared in the body of scientific information is very important. Because of that, there are journals which specialise in publications that do not describe the conclusions or effects of analysing data collected in research, but instead describe the data itself and the manner of collecting it. Articles which describe data sets are usually referred to as data descriptors. They are reviewed by experts in a given discipline and the most important assessment criteria include quality (procedures and the methods adopted), uniqueness and potential usefulness for other researchers. Journals which focus on research data may be interdisciplinary, such as Scientific Data and Data in Brief, or may publish data descriptors from one particular field, such as Geoscientific Model Development. They often also contain other types of publications, such as analyses showing completely new ways of using previously published data sets.