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The editorial staff of this publication uses this data to influence their publishing work and enhance it. With applicable exclusions, such as article metrics, data that may aid in developing this publishing platform may be shared with its creator Public Knowledge Project in an anonymized and aggregated form. This journal and PKP will not sell or use data other than those indicated below. The human subject data used in the study presented here is the responsibility of the authors who have been published in this journal.

The editors of this journal aim to comply with industry data privacy standards, such as the European Union's General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), which includes "data subject rights" such as (a) breach notification; (b) right of access; (c) right to be forgotten; (d) data portability; and (e) privacy by design. The GDPR also recognizes "the public interest in the data's availability," which is especially important for those responsible for keeping the public record of scholarly publications as accurate as feasible.