Reporting Guidelines and Study Registration

Authors are advised to follow relevant reporting standards (such as COREQ for qualitative studies or STROBE for observational studies) to ensure methodological transparency, clarity, and reproducibility.

Data availability. All research articles must include a Data Availability Statement explaining where the data supporting the findings can be accessed (for example, a trusted repository with a persistent identifier) or why they cannot be shared (for example, to protect participants' confidentiality). SOCIA encourages authors to follow the FAIR principles and, for research with Indigenous or local communities, the CARE principles. Editors and reviewers may ask to see the data during review.