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Journals shouldn't publish papers without all the supporting data and computer code necessary to reproduce the result. This seems obvious, but established acad
by justin_vanw 14y ago
Journals shouldn't publish papers without all the supporting data and computer code necessary to reproduce the result.
This seems obvious, but established academics have a vested interest in not sharing. Sharing data and code opens their work up to impeachment (as is seen here), and it gives others a jumping off point to extend their work.
Both of these side effects of sharing code and data are bad for the careers of successful academics, but good for literally everyone else in the world (including, ironically, these academics). It should be a no brainer, but then again, who referees these papers? The very people who have the most to lose by such a change.
It will take a lot of clamoring from the outside to bring about a world where scientific work is considered not legitimate without full documentation of the experiment performed.
- YokoZar 14y agoI recall hearing somewhere that the original paper wasn't actually published in a peer-reviewed journal, so requirements for data and code wouldn't really have applied anyway. Perhaps the greater lesson is that we should trust proper journals for a reason.