Data Availability

The journal encourages the data underlying published results to be available for verification and reuse. Authors must include a section titled "Data Availability" at the end of the manuscript, before the References. This statement is mandatory in both the version submitted for review and the final published version.

The author will declare one of the following options:

  • Data availability: The data supporting the findings of this research are available upon request from the corresponding author, [First name and surname]. Email: [email address].
  • Data availability: The data supporting the findings of this research are available in the repository [repository name]: [DOI or link].
  • Data availability: Not applicable, as no new datasets were generated or analyzed in this work.

Authors are encouraged to deposit their data in public repositories with a persistent identifier and to cite them in the references. When data are not deposited publicly because of legal, ethical, or privacy restrictions, the reason must be stated in the declaration, and the data may be requested from the corresponding author with reasoned justification. The editorial team may request access to the data during the evaluation process.

When data come from research involving human participants, they may only be deposited or shared in anonymized form and within the terms of the consent given (see ethical aspects and research with humans). If anonymization is not possible without destroying the usefulness of the dataset, this must be stated in the declaration, and access may be offered upon reasoned request.