Open Data and FAIR Data Policy

Social Development and Security journal supports the principles of Open Science and aligns with the FAIR Data standards (Findable, Accessible, Interoperable, Reusable).
Authors are encouraged to make their research data openly available in recognized repositories with permanent identifiers (e.g., DOI).

Each empirical paper must include a Data Availability Statement indicating repository name, DOI, access type, and license.
Recommended repositories: Zenodo, Figshare, Dryad, OSF, UA Open Archive.

Datasets should be formatted in open standards (CSV, JSON, XML) and properly cited in references according to DataCite guidelines.
This policy follows the  and aims to strengthen research transparency and reproducibility.