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Epidemiological data

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Epidemiological data collection plays a crucial role in advancing public health research and guiding evidence-based interventions. These datasets serve as foundational resources for studying disease patterns, risk factors, and health outcomes across populations, species, and environments. This Collection presents a series of articles describing epidemiological datasets spanning diverse populations, ecosystems, and disease contexts. Data are presented without hypotheses or significant analyses, and can be derived from population surveys, health registries, electronic health records, field sampling, or other sources. All described datasets are assessed to ensure their open availability (where possible) or secure access controls (where required) via Scientific Data’s editorial and peer review processes.

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This Collection welcomes submissions of Data Descriptors (full information on content types can be found here). Papers will be published in Scientific Data as soon as they are accepted and then collected together and promoted on the Collection homepage. All Guest Edited Collections are associated with a call for papers and are managed by one or more of our Editorial Board Members and the journal's Editors.

This Collection welcomes submissions from all authors – and not by invitation only – on the condition that the manuscripts fall within the scope of the Collection and of Scientific Data more generally. See our editorial process page for more details.

All submissions are subject to the same peer review process and editorial standards as regular Scientific Data articles, including the journal’s policy on competing interests. The peer review of any submissions for which the Guest Editors have competing interests is handled by another Editorial Board Member who has no competing interests. See our Collections guidelines for more details.

This Collection is not supported by sponsorship.