A characteristic of recent decades of scholarly work in the social sciences has been the increased amounts of empirical research. Access and availability of data are prerequisites for further research, replication work, and scientific development. As international peer-reviewed journals have gradually become the central forum for research debate, moves towards data sharing are dependent upon the policies of journals regarding data availability. This dataset presents data availability policies in political science in the year 2011.

E-mail - Standardisierter Selbstausfüller Internetbeobachtung

Web-based observation Fixed form self-administered questionnaire: E-mail

All political science journals within the 2010 Citation Index

Ranked journals (2010 Citation Index) with a regional or area focus and with a functioning website.