Use & Citation

Iran Monitor Version 1.0 is the first frozen scholarly release. It was published on 24 August 2026 and is available for research, teaching, journalism, and other reuse under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International licence.

Recommended citation

Version 1.0 DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.22072924. Use this DOI when citing data from Version 1.0.

Persistent DOI for Iran Monitor (all versions): 10.5281/zenodo.22072923. This identifier represents Iran Monitor across published versions.

Archived release materials

Frozen release packages, including the dataset and its version-specific documentation, are archived on Zenodo rather than duplicated on this website. See Releases for the version index, or open the archived Version 1.0 release on Zenodo.

Permanent identifiers

Person/candidate records use permanent identifiers in the form IRM-P-####. These identifiers are not recycled if a record is corrected or reclassified.

Licence and versioning

Iran Monitor is provided under CC BY 4.0. Once a scholarly release is frozen, substantive changes to data, coding, schema, or methodology are issued in a later version; routine website maintenance does not alter a frozen scholarly release.

Transparency

The Reviewed Exclusions page records serious candidates assessed but not included in Version 1.0. Version-specific documentation of the public data structure is archived with each release. Full scholarly methods will be described in the Iran Monitor methodology/data publication.