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

• and Eur. J. Org. Chem, where XYZ files for computationally derived structures are mandated (Figure 4). Of the 223 research papers to report NMR data, only 3 shared primary data (as MNOVA or JDX files) with none providing raw FID data despite encouragement from the journal guidelines. Note that ‘JDX

• as all ACS journals automatically assign a DOI and upload SI files to Figshare. Although 75% of journal guidelines recommended that data should be deposited in a subject-specific repository, the authors of only 4 articles (<2%) shared data in a public repository, and none used a subject-specific