Output details
11 - Computer Science and Informatics
Kingston University
Article title
The case for open computer programs
Type
D - Journal article
Title of journal
Nature
Article number
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Volume number
482
Issue number
7386
First page of article
485
ISSN of journal
0028-0836
Year of publication
2012
Number of additional authors
2
Additional information
<09> This highly cited paper uses both published and previously unpublished research results to illuminate the many sources of ambiguity in computer programs in support of the following central premise. ‘If a piece of scientific research involves computation, then the results of that research cannot be considered scientific unless the complete means of reproducibility are supplied with the research.’ This must necessarily include source code. It closes by making the point that current source code strictures for journals and funding bodies are now largely obsolete and suggests a method of classifying papers according to the degree of source code disclosure.
Interdisciplinary
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Cross-referral requested
-
Research group
None
Citation count
49
Proposed double-weighted
No
Double-weighted statement
-
Reserve for a double-weighted output
No
Non-English
No
English abstract
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