Here is an incentive they could use: If a paper publishes the code it used, they can be allowed to skip the methods section about it. Describing code with words

Here is an incentive they could use: If a paper publishes the code it used, they can be allowed to skip the methods section about it. Describing code with words is at best awkward and usually error prone as people forget to update the text. To be clear in my field the journals require publishing the code, but in my experience the code that gets reused gets more scrutiny, often without benefit to the researcher.