>But on the other hand it's substantially more work to clean and organize the code for publishing It's better than nothing, it also is the only way for others

>But on the other hand it's substantially more work to clean and organize the code for publishing It's better than nothing, it also is the only way for others to reproduce your results. I am surprised you were not asked to do that by whatever journal you chose to publish your results. >many scientists look at code as a competitive advantage so in this case publishing the code will be removing the competitive advantage LOL, what!? What is this crap about "competitive advantage"? Are you privately funded? Then it's fine. If you're funded by public (i.e. government) money, you are (at least ethically) obliged to share your work with everybody.