COPE guidelines and international best practices in scholarly publishing, the FGS Journal supports transparency, reproducibility, and responsible data sharing.

Data Availability Statement
All manuscripts must include a Data Availability Statement describing how the data supporting the results can be accessed. This may include:

• Open access via a recognized public data repository
• Availability upon reasonable request from the corresponding author
• Restricted access due to ethical, legal, or confidentiality considerations

Ethical and Legal Considerations
Authors must ensure that data sharing complies with ethical standards, participant consent, privacy requirements, and applicable legal or institutional regulations. Where data cannot be shared, authors must clearly justify the restriction in the Data Availability Statement.

Editorial Oversight

The journal reserves the right to request access to underlying data during peer review or after publication in cases where concerns arise regarding research integrity, in line with COPE guidance.

Author Responsibility

Authors are responsible for the accuracy, completeness, and appropriate documentation of all shared data.