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Table 1 Data sharing requirements of the top ten general and internal medicine journals

From: Sharing all types of clinical data and harmonizing journal standards

Journal

Data sharing

Data sharing statement

Data repositories suggested

Not mentioned

Suggested

Required

New England Journal of Medicine

X

  

No

No

The Lancet

Xa

  

No

No

JAMA

X

  

No

No

Annals of Internal Medicine

 

Xb

 

Yes

No

BMJ

 

Xc

 

Yes

Yes

PLoS Medicine

  

Xd

Yes

Yes

JAMA Internal Medicine

X

  

No

No

Journal of Cachexia and Sarcopenia

X

  

No

No

BMC Medicine

 

Xe

 

Yes

Yes

Mayo Clinic Proceedings

X

  

No

No

  1. a Authors may be required to provide the raw data for research papers when they are under review and up to 10 years after publication in The Lancet
  2. b Annals of Internal Medicine encourages but does not typically require the sharing of the raw data. However, it requires that authors state their willingness to share and any conditions for sharing
  3. c For all trials, the BMJ requires data sharing on request as a minimum
  4. d PLoS Medicine requires authors to make all data underlying the findings described in their manuscript fully available without restriction, with rare exception
  5. e BMC Medicine strongly encourages that all datasets on which the conclusions of the paper rely should be made available to readers.