FWIW, this is how I've released the crappy barely-working "academic quality" code for a paper in the past: https://github.com/DarwinAwardWinner/cd4-histone-pap

FWIW, this is how I've released the crappy barely-working "academic quality" code for a paper in the past: https://github.com/DarwinAwardWinner/cd4-histone-paper-code https://github.com/DarwinAwardWinner/cd4-histone-paper-code The main points are that I made only a minimal attempt to organize it, and I made the state of the code clear in the README. I don't recall anyone complaining about the code or even mentioning it during review. (Though to be fair, I also don't recall whether I published the code before or after the paper was accepted.) Looking at things from the other side, I'm am at least an order of magnitude more likely to read, use the work/methods from, and therefore cite a paper that comes with code.