Advertisement Search Menu BMC Research Notes Home About Articles Submission Guidelines Join The Editorial Board Contact Editorial Board Article types Journal News In Review Data Notes - making it easier to publish your hidden data Valuable data often go unpublished when it could be helping to progress science. Hence, we launched data notes - a short article type allowing you to describe your data and publish it to make your data easier to find, cite and share. Data notes are peer-reviewed, indexed publications, and benefit from in-house guidance on best data practice. Have a look at our infographic that outlines what information goes into a data note and how it's laid out. Publish a Data note and get credit for sharing your data Easier for you to share Don't leave your work languishing on a hard drive: deposit your datasets in an open repository and publish a data note describing them, allowing others to find, use and cite your data. Easier for others to find All BMC Research Notes publications - including data notes - are indexed in MEDLINE, PubMed, PubMed Central, SCImago, Scopus and many other services. Articles are also available through the BMC and SpringerLink sites for maximal discoverability of your work. Quick and easy to write Just download and follow our template. A data note consists of three main sections (objective, data description and limitations). A data note is purely a description of data available in an open repository, and requires no analysis or interpretation. Data note template Quick to publish Your data note will be peer-reviewed by an editorial board member and our in-house data experts will provide guidance on sharing and describing the datasets. Our prompt service means that data notes submitted in 2019 had an average time to final decision of under 50 days. Submit your data note Did you know...? A recent study showed that linking articles to the supporting data in a repository was associated with an average 25% increase in citations. Sirisena et al. published the data from their BMC Cancer article. Find the data note here or through the cross-link on their article. Auer et al. published the data from their BMC Geriatrics article. Find the data note here or through the cross-link on their article. What kind of data can you publish? See what other researchers have published A data note is suitable for any data. It can be for the unpublished data from an article, or it could be for data that didn't make it into a paper - or data you plan to use in a future research article! We accept data in a range of formats including: spreadsheets videos image files audio files maps code word documents About BMC Research Notes BMC Research Notes is a forum across all scientific disciplines for micro publications. We believe simple but sound observations deserve a platform. We publish two article types - the 'research note' and the 'data note'. Back to BMC Research Notes Submit manuscript Important information About the editorial board About our article types For authors For editorial board members For reviewers Contact Us Follow Annual Journal Metrics Speed 43 days to first decision for reviewed manuscripts only 26 days to first decision for all manuscripts 95 days from submission to acceptance 11 days from acceptance to publication Citation Impact 0.941 - Source Normalized Impact per Paper (SNIP) 0.608 - SCImago Journal Rank (SJR) 2.600 - CiteScore Usage 3,392,673 Downloads 1,203 Altmetric mentions More about our metrics Sign up for article alerts and news from this journal Advertisement BMC Research Notes ISSN: 1756-0500 Contact us Submission enquiries: Access here and click Contact Us General enquiries: ORSupport@springernature.com Read more on our blogs Receive BMC newsletters Manage article alerts Language editing for authors Scientific editing for authors Policies Accessibility Press center Support and Contact Leave feedback Careers Follow BMC By using this website, you agree to our Terms and Conditions, California Privacy Statement, Privacy statement and Cookies policy. Manage cookies/Do not sell my data we use in the preference centre. © 2021 BioMed Central Ltd unless otherwise stated. Part of Springer Nature. Your privacy We use cookies to make sure that our website works properly, as well as some "optional" cookies to personalise content and advertising, provide social media features and analyse how people use our site. By accepting some or all optional cookies you give consent to the processing of your personal data, including transfer to third parties, some in countries outside of the European Economic Area that do not offer the same data protection standards as the country where you live. You can decide which optional cookies to accept by clicking on "Manage Settings", where you can also find more information about how your personal data is processed.View our privacy policy Manage Settings Accept All Cookies