The DataCite organization (https://www.datacite.org/) has a growing list of repositories for research data.

http://www.icmje.org/news-and-editorials/data_sharing_june_2017.pdf

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The findings have previously been published elsewhere without proper crossreferencing, permission or justification (i.e., cases of redundant publication).

It constitutes plagiarism.

It reports unethical research.

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