Data Availability

The International Journal of Corporate Social Responsibility and Management encourages authors to promote transparency, reproducibility, and responsible research practices by making research data available whenever appropriate and ethically permissible.

1. Data Sharing

Authors are encouraged to make the data supporting their published research available to readers and other researchers, where possible. Data should be shared in an appropriate repository or through a suitable supplementary file.

2. Data Availability Statement

Authors should provide a Data Availability Statement in their manuscript. The statement should clearly indicate where the data supporting the research can be accessed or explain why the data cannot be made publicly available.

Examples include:

  • Openly available data:
    “The datasets generated and/or analyzed during the current study are available in [repository name] at [DOI/link].”
  • Available upon request:
    “The datasets generated during the study are available from the corresponding author upon reasonable request.”
  • No data available:
    “No datasets were generated or analyzed during the current study.”

3. Confidential or Sensitive Data

Where research involves confidential, proprietary, personal, or otherwise sensitive information, authors must not disclose data in a manner that could compromise participant privacy, confidentiality, or legal requirements.

4. Ethical and Legal Requirements

Authors are responsible for ensuring that data sharing complies with applicable ethical approvals, consent requirements, privacy regulations, intellectual property rights, and institutional policies.

5. Data Integrity

Authors must ensure that research data are accurate, authentic, and appropriately documented. Fabrication, falsification, manipulation, or selective reporting of data is considered a serious violation of research and publication ethics.

6. Editorial Requests

The journal may request clarification regarding the availability, origin, or management of research data when necessary to assess the integrity and reproducibility of the published work.