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So I work for a scientific journal (insert comments about how evil I am here) and we have much bigger problems with authors not providing full data than with us
by bbctol 10y ago
So I work for a scientific journal (insert comments about how evil I am here) and we have much bigger problems with authors not providing full data than with us refusing it. It is almost always possible to upload a full data set and code to a paper; what we're working on now is standardizing formats as much as possible so it's easy to immediately see what equipment and reagents were used, where the experimental procedures came from, what data was gathered and when, and how exactly it was analyzed without grabbing tons of files in different formats. "As much information as authors want" is high for an excellent but small set of authors who are probably right that the journal should do more to facilitate hosting their data--for most authors, that's far less information than we actually need.
- jerf 10y agoYes, I do not mean to just criticize journals, authors also need to start realizing they need to produce that as well. 10-20ish pages of paper for the work of a dozen people for three years (and that for the good-to-great papers) is just not an acceptable payoff for the amount of money involved.