Data In Brief – Regarding Desk Rejection

Hi everyone,

Our team recently submitted a dataset paper to Data in Brief, but it was desk rejected with the following comment:

“The dataset and manuscript do not abide by our policy on machine learning imaging datasets.”

Our dataset consists news photcards collected from Facebook. We manually collected to create a benchmark dataset for misinformation detection research. We’re now trying to understand what exactly went wrong.

I have a few questions:

– Has anyone received a similar rejection from Data in Brief?

– Does this mean they no longer accept image datasets intended for machine learning, or is there a specific policy requirement we may have missed?

– Would modifying the manuscript or dataset help, or should we submit to another data journal instead?

– If another journal would be more suitable, which ones would you recommend for publishing image datasets?

Thanks 🙏