The Scientific Paper is Obsolete (2018)
I think this is a great idea theoretically, but in reality for most papers I don't want to see the data/underlying code. While it would be great to publish data/code with the paper (in the field I've worked on the most, astronomy, most data is already published with the paper anyways), I don't want/need to look through a notebook with the underlying code of the paper in order to just read the intro/conclusions (and maybe one key methods section). Interactive figures are a great idea, but again, oftentimes I don't really care to interact with the figure, or fiddle stuff around, I just want to know why the paper is important and how I should use its conclusions. The two-column format of most papers is very useful for skimming. So instead I would argue notebooks shouldn't replace papers, but supplement them (as they sometimes do already, in fact, but perhaps journals could make it an actual requirement to create a supplementary notebook).<p>As the article mentions, scientific fields are gigantic nowadays, and skimming papers is critical when you're citing 100+ references in your paper.