Scientific Data is an open access journal dedicated to data, publishing descriptions of research datasets and articles on research data sharing from all areas of natural sciences, medicine, engineering and social sciences. It aims to advance the sharing and reuse of scientific data, promote wider data sharing and reuse, and to credit those that share.

Scientific Data primarily publishes Data Descriptors. These provide detailed descriptions of research datasets, including the methods used to collect the data and technical analyses supporting the quality of the measurements. Data Descriptors focus on helping others reuse data, rather than testing hypotheses, or presenting new interpretations, methods or in-depth analyses.

Scientific Data also welcomes original articles on the technologies, policies, data standands, platforms and workflows used to support data sharing within a repository use case. 

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Susanna-Assunta Sansone
Honorary Academic Editor
Susanna focuses on the strategic development of Scientific Data, particularly by fostering relationships with the scientific community and helping to define standards for data reuse. She did her PhD at Imperial College London, and then spent a few years at a private vaccine company before moving into data management and biocuration at the European Bioinformatics Institute (EMBL-EBI), in Cambridge. In 2010, Susanna joined the University of Oxford e-Research Centre, where she is an Associate Director and Principal Investigator, and an Associate Professor at the Department of Engineering Science. Her team works on methods and software for curating, sharing and enabling reproducible research. She also works with funding agencies and informatics initiatives to promote community-developed ontologies and standards, and is on the board of several community standardization efforts and open science advocacy initiatives. https://sansonegroup.eng.ox.ac.uk/
Andrew L Hufton
Chief Editor
Andrew is responsible for the editorial policies of Scientific Data, in consultation with the Honorary Editor, and works with the Editorial Board to ensure a fair and thorough peer-review process for all submissions. Andrew received his PhD from Stanford University in 2006, and did postdoctoral work at the Max Planck Institute for Molecular Genetics in Berlin. His research included topics in developmental genetics, computational biology and genome evolution. Before joining Scientific Data, Andrew worked as an Editor at Molecular Systems Biology.
Varsha Khodiyar
Data Curation Editor
Varsha is responsible for managing our in-house curation team, who create the machine-accessible metadata files associated with articles published in Scientific Data. In collaboration with the Editorial Board and relevant members of the scientific community, Varsha works to ensure that the most appropriate metadata are being captured for the published data from each community. Varsha began her career in curation after receiving her PhD from the University of Leicester. Based at University College London, she initially worked for the Human Gene Nomenclature Committee, which was followed by an 8 year stint as a Gene Ontology annotator. Prior to joining Scientific Data, Varsha worked on open data publication at the life science journal F1000Research.
Veronique van den Berghe
Associate Editor
Veronique obtained her PhD at KU Leuven in Belgium where she investigated the development and migration of cortical interneurons in the mouse embryo. She went on to do postdoctoral work at the Instituto de Neurociencias in Spain and at King’s College London looking at the integration of these neurons in the postnatal brain. Prior to joining Scientific Data, Veronique was an editor at Genome Biology and Nature Biotechnology.
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