Availability of research data in the social sciences: an analytical study

This study discusses the availability of research data in the social sciences sector because of its great importance for researchers and scientific journals, as the accurate collection, analysis, improvement, organization, and availability of research data makes it usable for conducting research studies, which benefits researchers in saving time and effort, as well as raising the citation rate of scientific articles. Where this study aims to know the extent of the availability of research data in the articles of journals specialized in the social sciences, by analyzing a sample of the articles of journals specialized in the social sciences exposed on the database of Dar Al-Manthama for the year 2020, where 1063 articles were analyzed, and the results revealed that there are 4873 categories of categories. Research data is included in the text of the articles analyzed. The study recommended providing authors and researchers with principles and guidelines related to research data and cooperating with research data repositories so that researchers can share their research data through them or create a journal for the journal to save and share their research data.