About the Journal

Aims and Scope. Journal of Data Quality, Provenance and Governance provides a focused venue for research on lineage, provenance models, quality metrics, metadata governance, policy enforcement. The journal prioritizes technically substantive, internationally relevant work in which the principal novelty lies inside the stated computing scope rather than only in the application domain.

Core topics in scope include:

• lineage
• provenance models
• quality metrics
• metadata governance
• policy enforcement
• lifecycle accountability
• data quality
• provenance
• governance
• stewardship

Evidence and methodological expectations. Data-centric work should document provenance, preprocessing, data quality, schema or representation choices, scalability, reproducibility, and statistically or operationally meaningful evaluation. Comparative studies should use representative datasets or workloads and report limitations.

Normally outside scope. Dashboard-only studies, descriptive statistics without computing novelty, undocumented proprietary data demonstrations, and routine database implementations without new data-management or analytical insight are normally outside scope.

Research integrity and reproducibility. Authors should disclose datasets, software, model or system configurations, experimental protocols, statistical procedures, ethical approvals where applicable, competing interests, funding, and any material use of generative AI. Data and code should be shared when legally and ethically possible, or the restriction must be explained.