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Sharing data and code facilitates reproducible and impactful research

Published:2024-06-16 Issue:3 Volume:40 Page:2210-2218
ISSN:8755-2930
Container-title:Earthquake Spectra
language:en
Short-container-title:Earthquake Spectra

Author:

Baker Jack W¹^ORCID,Crowley Helen²^ORCID,Wald David³^ORCID,Rathje Ellen⁴,Au Siu-Kui⁵^ORCID,Bradley Brendon A⁶^ORCID,Burton Henry⁷,Cabas Ashly⁸^ORCID,Cattari Serena⁹,Cauzzi Carlo¹⁰^ORCID,Cavalieri Francesco¹¹^ORCID,Contreras Santina¹²,Costa Rodrigo¹³^ORCID,Eguchi Ronald T¹⁴,Lallemant David⁵^ORCID,Lignos Dimitrios G¹⁵,Maurer Brett W¹⁶,Molina Hutt Carlos¹⁷^ORCID,Sextos Anastasios¹⁸¹⁹^ORCID,Seyhan Emel²⁰,Silva Vitor²¹^ORCID,Sucuoğlu Haluk²²,Taciroglu Ertugrul⁷^ORCID,Thompson Eric M³^ORCID

Affiliation:

1. Stanford University, Stanford, CA, USA

2. Global Earthquake Model, Pavia, Italy

3. U.S. Geological Survey, Golden, CO, USA

4. University of Texas, Austin, Austin, TX, USA

5. Nanyang Technological University, Singapore, Singapore

6. University of Canterbury, Christchurch, New Zealand

7. University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA, USA

8. North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC, USA

9. University of Genova, Genova, Italy

10. ORFEUS and SED-ETHZ, Zürich, Switzerland

11. Eucentre Foundation, Pavia, Italy

12. University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, USA

13. University of Waterloo, Waterloo, ON, Canada

14. ImageCat, Inc., Long Beach, CA, USA

15. École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL), Lausanne, Switzerland

16. University of Washington, Seattle, WA, USA

17. University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, Canada

18. University of Bristol, Bristol, UK

19. National Technical University of Athens, Athens, Greece

20. Moody’s RMS, Newark, CA, USA

21. University of Aveiro, Aveiro, Portugal

22. Middle East Technical University, Ankara, Turkey

Abstract

Modern research often involves the collection or analysis of data and the use of specialized computer algorithms. Traditional text articles thus provide only partial documentation of a research study. Readers have limited ability to reproduce or utilize work if the source data are not available or if it relies on an algorithm that is described, but code is not provided. Fortunately, a wide variety of tools are now available to support the publication of research data and code. The effort required to publish data is now relatively small, and the benefits can be immense. This opinion article discusses trends toward increased sharing in academic publishing. It describes opportunities and resources to support data and code sharing and describes the benefits for both authors and readers. Finally, it discusses how Earthquake Spectra is providing resources and enhancing its policies to establish the sharing of data as the default procedure when publishing in the journal, and encourage the sharing of code and other resources.

Publisher

SAGE Publications

Link

https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/pdf/10.1177/87552930241259397

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