The Replication Tax: Shifting the Financial Burden to Incentivize Reproducibility in Computational Research
Robert Nagler
David Bruhwiler
10.6084/m9.figshare.5783406.v1
https://figshare.com/articles/preprint/The_Replication_Tax_Shifting_the_Financial_Burden_to_Incentivize_Reproducibility_in_Computational_Research/5783406
Despite the innate reproducibility of software, computational science continues to struggle with reproducibility. The GSI mandate to establish best practices for computational reproducibility in high-performance geospatial software is a platform to change the behavior of computational scientists. We propose an economic approach: a “replication tax” on all publications in high-performance geospatial science. The easier it is to replicate research results, the less it costs authors to demonstrate their results are replicable.
2018-01-12 15:55:31
reproducible research
scientific method
grant economics
Computer Software
Information Systems Development Methodologies