Examples
Worked examples
- Is an instance
A JOSS submission undergoing open peer review on GitHub with editor-assigned reviewers.
- Is an instance
An rOpenSci review of a community R package against the rOpenSci packaging guidelines.
Counter-examples
Looks similar, but isn't
- Not an instance
An automated linter run.
- Not an instance
A reproducibility audit of a single paper's analysis.
Editorial commentary
Whereas industrial code review is line-by-line and routine, code review for research software is comparatively rare and varies in scope. Initiatives such as rOpenSci's peer review of R packages and pyOpenSci's review of Python packages exemplify formal community review; JOSS (Journal of Open Source Software) integrates open code review into its publication workflow.
References
- Smith et al., 'Journal of Open Source Software (JOSS): design and first-year review' (PeerJ Computer Science, 2018); rOpenSci Statistical Software Peer Review Guide.
Also known as
scientific code review · software peer review
Machine-readable encodings
Use in your systems
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