(Table version: Dec. 2022)
This table presents a selection of prominent scholarly journals that publish data papers. These are academic publications no different than other types of papers, apart from the focus on data or code as academic output. The table includes pure data journals (focused on exposing datasets) and mixed journals (not only data papers), useful for the dissemination of data and code for the different scientific fields at EPFL.
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The title and URL of the journal, with the indication of the editor and geographic location in parentheses.
This indicates the minimum Open Access type accepted by the journal. This can be:
- Diamond: full open access with no Article Processing Charges (APC)
- Full gold: full open access upon payment of APC
- Hybrid: open access with APC or closed access with no APC
When a data or code availability policy is available, its URL is provided.
Dataset focus. This can be:
- Data
- Code
- Both
An asterisk (*) indicates mixed journals: no specific focus on data papers, but the journal is used and renown for publishing also data papers.
Sources: doaj.org when available, or loc.gov/catdir/cpso/lcco, or the journal itself
Article Processing Charges (APC): these are the fees applied to the authors for submission. Source: doaj.org when available, or the journal itself.
An asterisk (*) indicates that a waiver policy exists. Refers to the journal website for more information.
Indication if the APCs are partially (P) or fully (F) supported by EPFL Library.
If (P), the percentage value indicates the charges’ fraction supported by the Library.
If (R&P), i.e. Read & Publish, it means that EPFL Library has negotiated a transformative agreement with the publisher(s).
| JOURNAL | OA TYPE | FOCUS | DISCIPLINE(S) | APC (* = Waiver policy) | EPFL LIBRARY AGREEMENT |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Computational Engineering and Physical Modeling (Pouyan Press, Iran) | Diamond | Code | Electrical engineering, Electronics, Nuclear engineering, Computer engineering | 0 | |
| Digital Humanities Quarterly (Alliance of Digital Humanities Organizations, Netherlands) | Diamond | Code | Humanities, Philology, Linguistics, Mass media | 0 | |
| Earth system science data (Copernicus Publications, Germany) | Diamond | Data | Environmental science, Earth science, Geology | 0 | |
| Image Processing On Line (Image Processing On Line, France) | Diamond | Code | Mathematics, Computer science | 0 | |
| International Journal of Data and Network Science (Growing Science, Canada) | Diamond | Both | Social Sciences, Management, Industrial management | 0 | |
| Journal of Data and Information Science (Sciendo, Poland) | Diamond | Code | Technology, Industrial engineering, Management engineering, Information technology, Mathematics, Computer science | 0 | |
| Journal of data science (School of Statistics, Renmin University of China, China) | Diamond | Code | Mathematics, Computer science, Mathematical statistics | 0 | |
| Journal of Statistics and Data Science Education (Taylor & Francis Group, USA) | Diamond | Code | Mathematics, Mathematical statistics, Education | 0 | |
| Journal of Open Source Software (Journal of Open Source Software, USA) | Diamond | Code | Science, Computer Science | 0 | |
| Advanced Modeling and Simulation in Engineering Sciences (SpringerOpen, UK) | Full Gold | Code | Engineering, Civil engineering, Applied mechanics, Systems engineering | 990 GBP* | P (20%) |
| Advances in Simulation (BMC, UK) | Full Gold | Code | Medical informatics | 1490 GBP* | P (20%) |
| Algorithms (MDPI AG, Switzerland) | Full Gold | Code | Technology, Industrial engineering, Management engineering, Mathematics, Computer science | 1400 CHF | P (20%) |
| Algorithms for Molecular Biology (BMC, UK) | Full Gold | Code | Biology, Genetics | 1490 GBP* | P (20%) |
| Big Data Analytics (BMC, UK) | Full Gold | Both | Medical informatics | 1190 GBP* | P (20%) |
| Big Data and Cognitive Computing (MDPI AG, Switzerland) | Full Gold | Both | Technology, Artificial Intelligence, Control systems | 1400 CHF | P (20%) |
| Big Earth Data (Taylor & Francis Group, UK) | Full Gold | Data | Geography, Anthropology, Recreation, Geology | 790 GBP* | F (R&P) |
| BioData Mining (BMC, UK) | Full Gold | Both | Medicine, Medical informatics, Mathematics | 1690 GBP* | P (20%) |
| BMC Bioinformatics (BMC, UK) | Full Gold | Code | Medical informatics, Biology | 1690 GBP* | P (20%) |
| BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making (BMC, UK) | Full Gold | Code | Medical informatics | 1570 GBP* | P (20%) |
| BMC Research Notes (BMC, UK) | Full Gold | Data | Biology, Medicine | 1110 GBP* | P (20%) |
| Brain Informatics (SpringerOpen, Germany) | Full Gold | Code | Medical informatics, Mathematics, Computer science | 790 GBP | P (20%) |
| CODATA data science journal (Ubiquity Press, UK) | Full Gold | Both | Multidisciplinary | 350 GBP* | |
| Computation (MDPI AG, Switzerland) | Full Gold | Code | Science, Computer science | 1400 CHF | P (20%) |
| Computational and Mathematical Methods in Medicine (Hindawi Limited, UK) | Full Gold | Code | Medical informatics | 2100 USD* | |
| Data Science Journal (Ubiquity Press, UK) | Full Gold | Both | Science | 350 GBP* | |
| eLife (eLife Sciences Publications Ltd, UK) | Full Gold | Both* | Medicine, Biology | 3000 USD* | |
| Frontiers in Applied Mathematics and Statistics (Frontiers Media S.A., Switzerland) | Full Gold | Code | Technology, Applied mathematics, Computer science | 1150 USD* | |
| Frontiers in Big Data (Frontiers Media S.A., Switzerland) | Full Gold | Both | Technology, Industrial engineering, Management engineering, Information technology | 1150 USD* | |
| Frontiers in Bioinformatics (Frontiers Media S.A., Switzerland) | Full Gold | Code | Medical informatics | 1900 USD* | |
| Frontiers in Digital Humanities (Frontiers Media S.A., Switzerland) | Full Gold | Code | Humanities, Mathematics, Computer science | 950 USD* | |
| Frontiers in Neuroinformatics (Frontiers Media S.A., Switzerland) | Full Gold | Code | Neurosciences, Biological psychiatry, Neuropsychiatry | 2950 USD* | |
| Geoscience Data Journal (Wiley, UK) | Full Gold | Data | Meteorology, Climatology, Geology | 1000 GBP, 1200 EUR, 1500 USD* | |
| Geoscientific Instrumentation, Methods and Data Systems (Copernicus Publications, Germany) | Full Gold | Both | Geophysics, Cosmic physics | 960 EUR* | |
| GigaScience (Oxford University Press, UK) | Full Gold | Code | Medicine, Medical informatics | 2439 USD* | |
| GigaByte (GigaScience Press, Hong Kong) | Full Gold | Both | Mathematics, Computer science | 350 USD* | |
| IUCrData (International Union of Crystallography, UK) | Full Gold | Data | Chemistry, Crystallography | 300 USD* | |
| Journal of Artificial Societies and Social Simulation (European Social Simulation Association, Switzerland) | Full Gold | Code | Social Sciences, Simulaitons | 1000 EUR, 800 GBP, 1300 USD* | |
| Journal of Big Data (SpringerOpen, UK) | Full Gold | Both | Electrical engineering, Electronics, Nuclear engineering, Computer engineering, Industrial engineering, Management engineering, Information technology, Mathematics, Computer science | 1060 GBP* | P (20%) |
| Journal of Cheminformatics (BMC, UK) | Full Gold | Code | Industrial engineering, Information technology, Chemistry | 1290 GBP* | P (20%) |
| Journal of Computational Mathematics and Data Science (Elsevier, Netherlands) | Full Gold | Code | Mathematics, Computer science | 1000 USD* | F (R&P) |
| Journal of Finance and Data Science (KeAi Communications Co., Ltd., Netherlands) | Full Gold | Code | Mathematics, Computer science, Social Sciences, Finance | 100 USD* | |
| Journal of Open Archaeology Data (Ubiquity Press, UK) | Full Gold | Data | Archaeology | 100 GBP* | |
| Journal of Open Psychology Data (Ubiquity Press, UK) | Full Gold | Data | Philosophy, Psychology, Religion | 100 GBP | |
| Journal of Open Research Software (Ubiquity Press, UK) | Full Gold | Code | Mathematics, Electronic computers, Computer science | 400 GBP* | |
| Machine Learning and Knowledge Extraction (MDPI AG, Switzerland) | Full Gold | Code | Electrical engineering, Nuclear engineering, Computer engineering, Computer hardware | 1400 CHF | P (20%) |
| Mathematical and Computational Applications (MDPI AG, Switzerland) | Full Gold | Code | Technology, Applied mathematics, Instruments and machines, Computer science | 1400 CHF | P (20%) |
| Methods and Protocols (MDPI AG, Switzerland) | Full Gold | Code | Biology | 1600 CHF | P (20%) |
| Open Health Data (Ubiquity Press, UK) | Full Gold | Data | Medicine | 645 GBP* | |
| Open Journal of Bioresources (Ubiquity Press, UK) | Full Gold | Medicine, Medical informatics | 100 GBP* | ||
| SoftwareX (Elsevier, Netherlands) | Full Gold | Code | Mathematics, Computer science | 500 USD* | F (R&P) |
| Statistical analysis and data mining (Wiley, UK) | Full Gold | Code | Statistics, Computer science, Electrical engineering, Operation research | 3760 USD / 2470 GBP / 3140 EUR | |
| The Astrophysics Journal: Supplement Series (IOP Publishing, UK) | Full Gold | Both | Astronomy, Astrophysics | 4499 USD* | |
| Biodiversity Data Journal (Pensoft Publishers, Bulgaria) | Full Gold | Data | Biology | 450 USD | |
| Data (MDPI AG, Switzerland) | Full Gold | Data | Multidisciplinary | 1600 CHF | P (20%) |
| Data in Brief (Elsevier, USA) | Full Gold | Data | Multidisciplinary | 700 USD* | F (R&P) |
| Geoscientific Model Development (Copernicus Publications, Germany) | Full Gold | Both | Geology | 1600 EUR* | |
| International Journal of Population Data Science (Swansea University, UK) | Full Gold | Data | Social Sciences, Economic theory, Demography, Population, Vital events | 1425 GBP | |
| PLoS One (Publisher Public Library of Science (PLoS), USA) | Full Gold | Both* | Medicine, Science | 1805 USD* | F |
| Scientific Data (Nature Portfolio, UK) | Full Gold | Data | Science | 1990 USD* | |
| Atomic Data and Nuclear Data Tables (Elsevier, USA) | Hybrid | Data | Atomic physics, Nuclear physics | 3000 USD | F (R&P) |
| Chemical Data Collections (Elsevier, USA) | Hybrid | Data | Chemistry | 780 USD | F (R&P) |
| Computational Statistics & Data Analysis (Elsevier, USA) | Hybrid | Data | Computational Statistics | 3240 USD | F (R&P) |
| Computing in Science and Engineering (IEEE Computer Society, USA) | Hybrid | Code | physics, biology, chemistry, and astronomy | 2995 USD* | |
| Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery (Springer, Germany) | Hybrid | Code | Data mining | 1990 GBP / 2890 USD / 2290 EUR | F (R&P) |
| WIREs Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery (Wiley, UK) | Hybrid | Code | Data mining | 4170 EUR | F (R&P) |
| IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering (IEEE Computer Society, USA) | Hybrid | Code | Computer science, Artificial intelligence, Electrical engineering, Computer engineering | 2995 USD* | |
| Nuclear Data Sheets (Elsevier, USA) | Hybrid | Data | Nuclear Physics | 3790 USD | F (R&P) |
| International Journal of Epidemiology (Oxford University Press, UK) | Hybrid | Both | Epidemiology | 3135 GBP | |
| Journal of Chemical and Engineering Data (American Chemical Society, USA) | Hybrid | Both | Physical chemistry, Inorganic chemistry, Organic chemistry, Materials science | 5000 USD | |
| F1000Research (F1000 Research Ltd, UK) | Full Gold | Both | Medicine, Science | 1350 USD* | |
| Journal of Physical and Chemical Reference Data (American Institute of Physics, USA) | Hybrid | Data | Physics, Chemistry | 3500 USD | F (R&P) |
| Lifetime Data Analysis (Springer, Germany) | Hybrid | Both | Actuarial Science, Economics, Engineering Sciences, Environmental Sciences, Management Science, Medicine, Operations Research, Public Health, Social and Behavioral Sciences | 1990 GBP / 2890 USD / 2290 EUR | F (R&P) |