Nature Research journals trial new tools to enhance code peer review and publication : Of Schemes and Memes Blog

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Summary:

"Starting this month, three Nature journals—Nature Methods, Nature Biotechnology and Nature Machine Intelligence—will run a trial in partnership with Code Ocean to enable authors to share fully-functional and executable code accompanying their articles and to facilitate peer review of code by the reviewers.  

This guest blog comes from Erika Pastrana, Executive Editor for the Nature Research Journals and Sowmya Swaminathan, Head of Editorial Policy and Research Integrity at Nature Research.

Increasing the reproducibility of scientific findings is a goal that all of us in the research enterprise share. One path towards achieving this is to encourage authors to provide all relevant data and code associated with a published article. This enables others to re-run the analyses, reproduce the results and re-use the code and data to build on the work, advancing science further. Since 2014 the Nature journals have required authors of studies with custom code or algorithms that are central to the conclusions to provide a “Code Availability” statement indicating whether and how the code or algorithm can be accessed, including any restrictions to access. In 2016, we adopted a policy of mandatory “data availability statements” on all Nature journal papers. The guiding principle is that these statements must provide enough information for readers to be able to reproduce the results and access the code and data for use in their own research...."

Link:

http://blogs.nature.com/ofschemesandmemes/2018/08/01/nature-research-journals-trial-new-tools-to-enhance-code-peer-review-and-publication

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Date tagged:

08/02/2018, 11:38

Date published:

08/02/2018, 07:40