“…Because data papers can promote data sharing and provide several benefits to researchers, I recommend that Japanese ecologists publish original articles and data papers simultaneously (Osawa, ). Accordingly, my colleagues and I have published seven data papers (Fukasawa et al, ; Osawa, ; Osawa, Baba, et al, ; Osawa, Igehara, et al, ; Osawa, Kadoya, & Kohyama, ; Osawa & Wada, ; Osawa, Yamanaka, et al, ; Voraphab, Hanboonsong, Kobori, Ikeda, & Osawa, ) and several of these data papers were published simultaneously with corresponding original articles (Osawa, ; Osawa & Inohara, ; Osawa, Kohyama, et al, ; Osawa et al, ; Osawa, Yamanaka, et al, ). Here, a data paper should include all available data, not just the data used in the original article (Osawa, ).…”