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Publishing: Determining what journals that publish software paper should provide to their reviewers #56

Open danielskatz opened 9 years ago

danielskatz commented 9 years ago

Determining what journals that publish software paper should provide to their reviewers (e.g., guidelines, mechanisms, metadata standards, etc.)

npch commented 9 years ago

A related question is whether journals should be providing tools like VM images / docker containers, or whether the entire review process should be moved upstream, whereby people planning to publish software papers get their development process audited by reviewers, rather than the software itself. This would be akin to preregistration of medical experiments.

danielskatz commented 9 years ago

Kind of like the F1000 model?

jameshowison commented 9 years ago

I think this is an interesting idea, but I note that it would be taking something that is currently "backstage" (to use Goffman's terms) and making it "frontstage". As such it is fraught with image presentation problems and would quite likely be accompanied by the development of another "backstage". Studies looking at transparency of work processes often find things like that, a system introduces auditability of work and employees keep notes on paper first (or use a personal email server ;)

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A related question is whether journals should be providing tools like VM images / docker containers, or whether the entire review process should be moved upstream, whereby people planning to publish software papers get their development process audited by reviewers, rather than the software itself. This would be akin to preregistration of medical experiments.

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