Scientific Data (journal)

{{Infobox journal

| title = Scientific Data

| cover =

| editor =

| discipline = Natural sciences

| abbreviation = Sci. Data

| publisher = Nature Research

| country =

| frequency = Continuous

| history = 2014-present

| openaccess = Yes

| license = Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International Licence

| impact = 5.8

| impact-year = 2023

| website = http://www.nature.com/sdata/

| eISSN = 2052-4463

| OCLC = 880900611

}}

Scientific Data is a peer-reviewed open access scientific journal published by Nature Research since 2014.{{Citation |last=Jump |first=Paul |year=2013 |title=Nature's publishers to launch open-access platform for data sets and analysis of public data sets |publisher=Times Higher Education |url=https://www.timeshighereducation.co.uk/news/natures-publishers-to-launch-open-access-platform-for-data-sets/2003011.article |accessdate=2015-06-11}} It focuses on descriptions of data sets relevant to the natural sciences, medicine, engineering and social sciences,{{Cite web |title=FAQ {{!}} Scientific Data |url=https://www.nature.com/sdata/faq |access-date=2022-05-24 |website=www.nature.com |language=en}} which are provided as machine-readable data, complemented with a human oriented narrative. The journal was not the first to publish data papers, but is one of a few journals whose content consists primarily of data papers.{{Cite journal |doi=10.1002/asi.23358|title=Data journals: A survey|journal=Journal of the Association for Information Science and Technology|pages=1747–1762|year=2015|last1=Candela|first1=Leonardo|last2=Castelli|first2=Donatella|last3=Manghi|first3=Paolo|last4=Tani|first4=Alice|volume=66|issue=9|s2cid=31358007|url=https://zenodo.org/records/18377/files/DataJournalsSurvey.pdf}}{{Citation |last1=Spinak |first1=Ernesto |last2=Packer |first2=Abel |year=2014 |title=Scientific Data: Nature Publishing Group moves the communication of scientific data forward with its new online open access publication |publisher=SciELO |url=http://blog.scielo.org/en/2014/02/04/scientific-data-nature-publishing-group-moves-the-communication-of-scientific-data-forward-with-its-new-online-open-access-publication/ |accessdate=2015-06-11}} The journal is abstracted and indexed by Index Medicus/MEDLINE/PubMed.

{{cite web |url=https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/nlmcatalog/101640192 |title=Scientific Data |work=NLM Catalog |publisher=National Center for Biotechnology Information |accessdate=2015-06-11}}