Research integrity in instructions for authors in Japanese medical journals using ICMJE recommendations: A descriptive literature study

The goals of this project were to compare research integrity content in Instructions for Authors in ICMJE member journals with those in the English- and Japanese-language journals of the Japanese Association of Medical Sciences (JAMS).
Therefore, this dataset contents include the following three categories: 1) journals' background information, 2) description numbers of research integrity topics, and 3) journal numbers that required ICMJE description forms in ICMJE member journals, English- and Japanese-language journals., , , # Research integrity in Instructions for Authors in Japanese medical journals using ICMJE Recommendations: a descriptive literature study

## Description of the data and file structure

The dataset (csv) includes nine files below.

Data of Nos. 1) to 3) files were used in Table 1 (Background information for the evaluated medical journals) in the article.

1\) *Background_information_ICMJE:* Background information of ICMJE member journals

2\) *Background_information_Eng:* Background information of JAMS English-language journals

3\) *Background_information_Ja:* Background information of JAMS Japanese-language journals

Data of Nos. 4) to 6) files were used in Table 2 (Evaluation of research integrity topics, including those described in the ICMJE Recommendations) in the article.

4\) *Integirty_topics_ICMJE:* Integrity topics of ICMJE member journals

5\) *Integirty_topics_Eng:* Integrity topics of JAMS English-language journals

6\) *Integrity_topics_Ja:* Integrity topics of JAMS Japa...