إتاحة البيانات البحثية الأولية في قطاعي العلوم البحتة و التطبيقية : دراسة تحليلية على عينة من الدوريات المصرية المكشفة في قاعدة بيانات (ISI Web of Science)‎

Abstract EN

This study aims to discuss the phenomenon of ‘Primary Data Availability’ that cannot be included in the main text of the journal articles, such as questionnaires, check lists, tables, images, texts, and figures related to the content of published articlesand according to the publication policy of some scholarly journals which do not allow to add these volumes of data in the published articles.

Although, primary data are the basis of scientific research and its very important resources for scholars, researchers and reviewers in any major of human knowledge.

The study analyzed primary data in Science and Technology depending on a selected sample of Egyptian journals published their articles in 2018 (n= 31 journals; and 622 articles with supplementary materials= 866 files).

The results revealed that the primary data included in the analyzed supplementary files are divided into major five categories as following: Illustrations (39.6%); Statistical Data (31.6%); Mixed Data (19.2%); Text Data (5.1%); and Multimedia (4.5%).

The file extensions for all the supplementary materials are in different formats, especially in MS WORDs (36%) and PDFs (32.2%).

Most supplementary materials provided in Science and Technology articles are related to Results (48.73%), Materials and Methods (16.63%), and Discussions (3.58%) Respectively.The study recommends publishers to stablish a clear policy related to thepublication of supplementary materials in the Arabic journals, and to encourage researchers in order to share theprimary data of their research projects in the future