🎉🎉New Preprint!!🎉🎉
"From Policy to Practice: Progress towards Data- and Code-Sharing in Ecology and Evolution"
https://doi.org/10.32942/X2492Q
Myself and a whole bunch of awesome coauthors reviewed data- and code-sharing policies across 275 journals that publish ecology and evolution studies.
"From Policy to Practice: Progress towards Data- and Code-Sharing in Ecology and Evolution"
https://doi.org/10.32942/X2492Q
Myself and a whole bunch of awesome coauthors reviewed data- and code-sharing policies across 275 journals that publish ecology and evolution studies.
Comments
1) policy strictness (e.g. is data and or code encouraged/mandated/on reviewer request?)
2) policy timing (when does the journal expect data and code to be shared?) and
3) policy clarity (how clear is the wording?)
We also looked at rates of initial compliance to mandated data- and code-sharing policies at two E&E journals!!
(Shoutout to the amazing help from the editorial teams at Proceedings of the Royal Society B and Ecology Letters).
1) Overall, mandated sharing during peer review was the most common data policy.
2) For code, slightly less positive, the most common policy was to have no code-sharing policy at all!
4) We also found that journals with stricter data-sharing policies tended to have similarly strict code-sharing policies.
6) Importantly, when enforced, this can lead to very high levels of compliance!!