The Arab Media Renewal Journal (AMRJ) is committed to promoting transparency, reproducibility, and the responsible sharing of research data. This policy is designed to support the principles of open science and to comply with the data availability standards expected by Scopus, Clarivate, and leading research funders.

Data Availability Statement

All manuscripts submitted to AMRJ must include a Data Availability Statement at the end of the article (before the references). This statement must clearly indicate whether the data supporting the findings of the study are publicly available, available upon reasonable request, or restricted due to ethical, legal, or proprietary considerations.

Encouraged Practices

Authors are strongly encouraged to deposit the research data underlying their published articles in a recognized, publicly accessible data repository. Recommended repositories include Figshare, Zenodo, Harvard Dataverse, Dryad, and discipline-specific repositories. Data deposits should include a persistent identifier (e.g., DOI) and should be cited in the manuscript's reference list.

Data Citation

When data are deposited in a repository, authors should cite the dataset formally in the references using the following format: Author(s). (Year). Dataset Title [Data set]. Repository Name. https://doi.org/xxxx

Exceptions

AMRJ recognizes that not all data can be shared openly. Acceptable reasons for restricted data availability include the protection of participant confidentiality and privacy (particularly in qualitative research involving sensitive populations), legal or regulatory restrictions, proprietary data owned by third parties, and data generated from ongoing longitudinal studies where premature release could compromise future research. In such cases, authors must provide a clear explanation in the Data Availability Statement and, where possible, describe the conditions under which the data may be accessed.

Compliance with FAIR Principles

AMRJ encourages authors to ensure that their data are Findable, Accessible, Interoperable, and Reusable (FAIR). This includes using standardized formats, providing comprehensive metadata, and selecting repositories that support long-term preservation.