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Code Is Science: a journal-policy tracker for research software
A tracker and set of practical guides for opening, reviewing, archiving, and citing research code.
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- Researchers preparing or reviewing papers with code
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- The tracker links each of its 24 journal policies to a source, alongside a checklist covering reproducibility, licensing, and archival release.
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The review checklist gives authors and reviewers concrete checks: a README that runs in one command, pinned versions, outputs matching a figure, a license file, and an archived release with a DOI. A separate license primer compares six named licenses. The homepage also shows a sample review exchange in which a reviewer flags a disagreement between code units and the Methods text; it is presented as an example, not evidence of a real paper.
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