Pan Asian STEM journals and authors are encouraged to share or make open the data supporting the results of analyses presented in their paper where this does not violate the protection of human subjects or other valid privacy or security concerns. Authors wishing to do so may deposit their data in a publicly accessible repository and include a link to the DOI within the text of the manuscript. Authors are further encouraged to cite any data sets referenced in the article and provide a Data Availability Statement (also known as ‘data access statement’).