Journal History
| 2016 | The inaugural issue was released. Data was published as a quarterly journal. |
| 2017 | Data was indexed in Emerging Sources Citation Index (ESCI)—Web of Science (Clarivate Analytics), starting with Volume 2 (Issue 1). |
| 2018 | Data was indexed in Inspec - IET. Data became an affiliated journal of the Global Open Data for Agriculture and Nutrition (GODAN). |
| 2019 | Data was indexed in Scopus (Elsevier), starting with Volume 1 (Issue 1). |
| 2020 |
Data received its first CiteScore (2019) of 2.1.
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| 2021 | Data adopted a monthly publication schedule. |
| 2023 | Data received its first Impact Factor (2.6). |
| 2024 | Data was indexed in Ei Compendex—Elsevier. |
| 2026 | The year 2026 marked the 10th Anniversary of Data. Section "Chemoinformatics" was renamed as "Data Science for Chemistry, Energy and Materials". Section "Spatial Data Science and Digital Earth" was renamed as "Spatial Data Science for Environment and Earth". |
Editor-in-Chief
| 2016–present | Editor-in-Chief: Prof. Dr. Jamal Jokar Arsanjani |
Section Editor-in-Chief
| 2026–present | Section Editor-in-Chief: Dr. Yongqing Cai for the section on Data Science for Chemistry, Energy and Materials Section Editor-in-Chief: Dr. Joaquín Torres-Sospedra for the section on Information Systems and Data Management |
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