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

• Sally Bloodworth,
• Cerys Willoughby and
• Simon J. Coles

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2025, 21, 864–876, doi:10.3762/bjoc.21.70

• identifiers for all reported compounds. Keywords: data availability; FAIR principles; journal guidelines; NMR data; organic chemistry; Introduction Fundamental to science is the ability of researchers to build upon the findings of others. Scientific data are no longer perceived as simply an output of

• . The lack of structure identifiers highlights the culture change that is required to reverse the loss of machine-readable compound identifiers when data are prepared for publication. Adherence to FAIR principles For the 47 research studies that shared primary data, these outputs were assessed against

• the overwhelming majority of articles, only mandatory data requirements are met. This suggests that the positive promotion of FAIR principles by the cheminformatics community has had little effect amongst mainstream researchers to date, and journals/publishers have a key role to play in driving an