Examples
Worked examples
- Is an instance
A study's analysis scripts published on GitHub and archived in Zenodo with DOI on paper acceptance.
- Is an instance
A bioinformatics pipeline released under MIT licence with a CITATION.cff file.
Counter-examples
Looks similar, but isn't
- Not an instance
Code 'available on reasonable request'.
- Not an instance
Pseudocode in a methods section.
Editorial commentary
Open code is a necessary condition for computational reproducibility and a strong signal of methodological transparency. Best practice involves a version-controlled repository (typically Git/GitHub/GitLab) with a permanent archival snapshot (Zenodo, Software Heritage), a licence (MIT, BSD, GPL, Apache-2.0), and a citation file (CITATION.cff).
References
- Barba, 'Terminologies for Reproducible Research' (arXiv, 2018); FORCE11 Software Citation Principles.
Also known as
open-source research code · shared analysis code
Machine-readable encodings
Use in your systems
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