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One big issue with making papers reproducible is that the incentives to do that simply don't exist in many cases. It is often not rewarded if you put additional
by fabian2k 8y ago
One big issue with making papers reproducible is that the incentives to do that simply don't exist in many cases. It is often not rewarded if you put additional effort there, and usually also not punished even if you don't do the minimum the journals require in their official rules.
The official rules are slowly changing, and the funding agencies tend to require that scientists make raw data available, and put effort into making their experiments reproducible. But the reality is changing much more slowly than the rules.
- HelloNurse 8y agoPeer reviewers should summarily throw out papers: "unclear procedure", "missing data", "the software is not available at the time of review"...
- danieltillett 8y agoActually the incentives encourage non-reproducibility. Any effort put into reproducibility increases the chance that the results won't be publishable. The worst outcome is not publishing crap, it is not publishing at all. This needs to change.