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Open source the code and supporting data.

• yakult 10y ago
  It's not that simple. What if some of it is proprietary? What if I'm not allowed to submit code because I need to be anonymous so reviewers can maintain impartiality? What happens when one of the upstreams update and breaks my code? Do I need to keep it updated? Forever?
  • adrianN 10y ago
    At my institute at least, scientists are required to maintain everything that is necessary to reproduce a result for at least ten years. That includes all the data and the software used to produce the results. It's not an easy job, but it's important.
    • yakult 10y ago
      If your institute also mandates they make the data/software publicly available, then that's definitely the exception rather than rule. Also must be hideously expensive. It almost never happens that a paper I read actually comes with usable source code.
  • pixl97 10y ago
    Then your results are not reproducible and your conclusion is suspect.