Data accessibility in the chemical sciences: an analysis of recent practice in organic chemistry journals

Data is the analysis of the data outputs of 240 randomly selected research papers from 12 top-ranked journals published in early 2023. We investigate author compliance with recommended (but not compulsory) data policies, whether there is evidence to suggest that authors apply FAIR data guidance in their data publishing, and if the existence of specific recommendations for publishing NMR data by some journals encourages compliance. Files in the data package have been provided in both human and machine-readable forms. The main dataset is available in the Excel file Data worksheet.XLSX, the contents of which can also be found in Main_dataset.CSV, Data_types.CSV, and Article_selection.CSV with explanations of the variable coding used in the studies in Variable_names.CSV, Codes.CSV, and FAIR_variable_coding.CSV. The R code used for the article selection can be found in Article_selection.R. Data about article types from the journals that contain original research data is in Article_types.CSV. Data collected for analysis in our sister paper[4] can be found in Extended_Adherence.CSV, Extended_Crystallography.CSV, Extended_DAS.CSV, Extended_File_Types.CSV, and Extended_Submission_Process.CSV. A full list of files in the data package and a short description for each is given in README.TXT.