| Discipline | Natural sciences |
|---|---|
| Language | English |
| Publication details | |
| History | 2014-present |
| Publisher | |
| Frequency | Continuous |
| Yes | |
| License | Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International Licence |
| 7.2 (2025) | |
| Standard abbreviations ISO 4 (alt) · Bluebook (alt) NLM (alt) · MathSciNet (alt  ) | |
| ISO 4 | Sci. Data |
| Indexing CODEN (alt) · JSTOR (alt) · LCCN (alt) MIAR · NLM (alt) · Scopus · W&L | |
| ISSN | 2052-4463 |
| OCLC no. | 880900611 |
| Links | |
Scientific Data is a peer-reviewed open access scientific journal published by Nature Research since 2014.1 It focuses on descriptions of data sets relevant to the natural sciences, medicine, engineering and social sciences,2 which are provided as machine-readable data, complemented with a human oriented narrative. The journal was not the first to publish data papers, but is one of a few journals whose content consists primarily of data papers.34 The journal is abstracted and indexed by Index Medicus/MEDLINE/PubMed.
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- "FAQ | Scientific Data". www.nature.com. Retrieved 2022-05-24.
- Candela, Leonardo; Castelli, Donatella; Manghi, Paolo; Tani, Alice (2015). "Data journals: A survey" (PDF). Journal of the Association for Information Science and Technology. 66 (9): 1747–1762. doi:10.1002/asi.23358. S2CID 31358007.
- Spinak, Ernesto; Packer, Abel (2014), Scientific Data: Nature Publishing Group moves the communication of scientific data forward with its new online open access publication, SciELO, retrieved 2015-06-11
- "Scientific Data". NLM Catalog. National Center for Biotechnology Information. Retrieved 2015-06-11.