The unsung heroes of scientific software
Personally I believe that open code, raw data, and cleaned datasets should be requirements for publication in any peer-reviewed journal in which a paper claims that computational mechanisms were involved.<p>Failure to distribute the data and code not only greatly devalues the contributions of many scientists, it makes replication far more difficult, and opens the door for outright fabrication.<p>If computation is a necessary element of the research, it ought to be a necessary element of publication as well.