.. _d:publicationyear:

PublicationYear (M)
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The year when the data is made publicly available. If an embargo period has been in effect, use the date when the embargo period ends. (occurrences: 1)

**Allowed values, examples, other constraints**

Year in the form: ``YYYY``

In the case of datasets, "publish" is understood to mean making the data available on a specific date to the community of researchers.

If there is no standard publication year value, use the date that would be preferred from a citation perspective.

Example
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.. code-block:: xml
   :linenos:

   <publicationYear>2019</publicationYear>