Table 2 Estimated data citation implementation timelines for eight academic publishers.

From: A data citation roadmap for scientific publishers

Publisher

Planning

Implementation

Planned go-live date

eLife

Q1–Q3 2017

Q1–Q3 2018

Live

Elsevier

Q2–Q3 2016

Q4 2016

Live

EMBO Press

Q1–Q2 2017

Q3 2017–Q1 2018

Live

Frontiers

Q1–Q4 2017

Q1– Q2 2018

Live

PLOS

Q1–Q4 2017

2018

Q1/Q2 2019

SpringerNature

2016–2017

Q2 2017–Q4 2018

Q4 2018

Taylor & Francis

Q1–Q2 2017

Q4 2017 continuing through 2018

Live

Wiley

Q1–Q2 2017

Q4 2017 continuing through 2018

2018

  1. NB. The data citation rollout at the given publishers will be in line with their respective data policies and will apply to all journals whose content is based on a dataset or which references datasets.