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Data Availability Statement
Data Availability Statement
PsyMotion: Journal of Sport Psychology and Movement Science encourages transparency, reproducibility, and responsible data sharing in scholarly research.
Commitment to Research Transparency
Authors are encouraged to provide a clear data availability statement explaining whether research data are available, where they can be accessed, and under what conditions they may be used.
Transparency
Authors should clearly state the availability of data supporting the findings of their manuscript.
Reproducibility
Data sharing helps readers, reviewers, and researchers verify findings and support future research.
Ethical Responsibility
Data sharing must respect privacy, confidentiality, informed consent, and ethical research standards.
Data Availability Requirement
Authors submitting manuscripts to PsyMotion should include a data availability statement when applicable. The statement should describe whether the data used in the study are publicly available, available upon reasonable request, restricted due to ethical or legal reasons, or not applicable to the study.
State whether research data are publicly available
Provide repository links or persistent identifiers when available
Explain restrictions related to privacy, ethics, or confidentiality
Clarify when data sharing is not applicable
Types of Data Availability Statements
Data Available in Repository
The data supporting the findings of this study are available in a public repository and can be accessed through the link provided by the author.
Data Available Upon Request
The data are available from the corresponding author upon reasonable request, subject to ethical, legal, or institutional requirements.
Restricted Data
The data cannot be shared publicly due to privacy, confidentiality, participant consent, or institutional restrictions.
Not Applicable
Data sharing is not applicable because the manuscript does not involve datasets or new data generation.
Recommended Data Sharing Process
Identify Research Data
Authors should identify the data, materials, instruments, or supporting documents used to support the findings of the manuscript.
Check Ethical Restrictions
Authors must ensure that data sharing does not violate participant privacy, informed consent, ethical approval, or institutional regulations.
Select Availability Option
Authors should choose the appropriate data availability option, such as public repository, reasonable request, restricted access, or not applicable.
Provide Clear Statement
Authors should include a concise and transparent data availability statement in the manuscript before publication.
Examples of Data Availability Statements
The data supporting the findings of this study are openly available in [repository name] at [URL/DOI].
The data supporting the findings of this study are available from the corresponding author upon reasonable request.
The data are not publicly available due to privacy, ethical, or confidentiality restrictions.
No new data were created or analyzed in this study. Data sharing is not applicable to this article.
Ethical and Confidential Data
For studies involving human participants, athletes, students, patients, or community members, authors must ensure that shared data do not compromise participant privacy or confidentiality. Data should be anonymized when appropriate, and sharing should comply with informed consent, ethical approval, and applicable regulations.
Privacy and Participant Protection
Data containing identifiable personal information, sensitive health information, or confidential institutional information should not be shared publicly unless explicit permission and ethical approval have been obtained.
Data Availability Statement
PsyMotion supports responsible data sharing as part of transparent and ethical scholarly communication. The journal encourages authors to make research data available whenever possible while respecting ethical, legal, institutional, and confidentiality requirements.