Survey and Analysis of the Data Policy of China’s STM journals that Selected by Excellence Action Plan for China's STM Journals Program for Example

Scientific data is an important output of scientific research, and a part of scholarly communication. By establishing the data policy of journal, it have great significance to promoting the data sharing, data reuse, data citation and scientific research evaluation. By means of literature research and website research, the paper scanned the data policies operation status of 302 scientific journals that were selected as the leading journals, key journals, and echelon journals in Excellence Action Plan for China's STM Journals, and analyzed the data policy setting, and the festures of the policy, such as classification types ,data availability, and data citation.