Research Data and Data Papers

Dear Colleagues,

In the last ten years, the field of research data studies has grown markedly. Organizations such as the Research Data Alliance (launched as a community-driven initiative in 2013 by the European Commission, the USA Government's National Science Foundation and NIST, and the Australian Government's Department of Innovation) have more than 12K members globally, representing 146 countries. This growth is related to profound changes in scholarly communication flows:

- The impact of digital technologies and the robustness of communication networks on a global scale;

- The development of the open access and open science movements;

- The consolidation of repositories as online archives of science and the affirmation of research data management as a work field for information professionals;

- The changes in the editorial strategies of scientific publishing;

- The formation of international research and data exchange networks at an ever-increasing speed.

After 2020, the COVID-19 pandemic strengthened the need for research data to be considered as a fundamental pillar of scholarly communication. Data interoperability and research reproducibility must be considered priorities for the third decade of the 21st century.

Publications is a journal concerned with the dialogue between researchers and also with how researchers interact with society. This Special Issue aims to bring together papers that showcase recent research on research data, not only focusing on the internal science communication but also including research data as a link to connect science and society.

Fundamentally, the Special Issue seeks to highlight research on:

- Data papers and data journals;

- Data repositories and research data management;

- Open research data, open science, and FAIR principles;

- Forms of data interoperability and research reproducibility.

Dr. Jorge Revez
Guest Editor

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