The Rise of GitHub in Scholarly Publications

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“…Despite the emergence and rapid dissemination of online repositories such as OSF and Github [18], open code remains the exception rather than the rule for most published research articles. As a consequence, replicators routinely find themselves forced to contact original authors, relying on the latter's spontaneous willingness to cooperate.…”

Section: State Of the Art And Research Questionmentioning

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Care to share? Experimental evidence on code sharing behavior in the social sciences

Krähmer,

Schächtele,

Schneck

2023

PLoS ONE

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Transparency and peer control are cornerstones of good scientific practice and entail the replication and reproduction of findings. The feasibility of replications, however, hinges on the premise that original researchers make their data and research code publicly available. This applies in particular to large-N observational studies, where analysis code is complex and may involve several ambiguous analytical decisions. To investigate which specific factors influence researchers’ code sharing behavior upon request, we emailed code requests to 1,206 authors who published research articles based on data from the European Social Survey between 2015 and 2020. In this preregistered multifactorial field experiment, we randomly varied three aspects of our code request’s wording in a 2x4x2 factorial design: the overall framing of our request (enhancement of social science research, response to replication crisis), the appeal why researchers should share their code (FAIR principles, academic altruism, prospect of citation, no information), and the perceived effort associated with code sharing (no code cleaning required, no information). Overall, 37.5% of successfully contacted authors supplied their analysis code. Of our experimental treatments, only framing affected researchers’ code sharing behavior, though in the opposite direction we expected: Scientists who received the negative wording alluding to the replication crisis were more likely to share their research code. Taken together, our results highlight that the availability of research code will hardly be enhanced by small-scale individual interventions but instead requires large-scale institutional norms.

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Care to share? Experimental evidence on code sharing behavior in the social sciences

Krähmer,

Schächtele,

Schneck

2023

PLoS ONE

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“…In turn, GitHub and GitLab are publicly available and searchable open-source software repositories. In particular, GitHub is by far the most used code repository in general [23] (with GitLab comfortably in second position [23]), and in scholarly publications in particular [24].…”

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A Rapid Review on the Use of Free and Open Source Technologies and Software Applied to Precision Agriculture Practices

Santos

Fachada

Beko

et al. 2023

JSAN

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Technology plays a crucial role in the management of natural resources in agricultural production. Free and open-source software and sensor technology solutions have the potential to promote more sustainable agricultural production. The goal of this rapid review is to find exclusively free and open-source software for precision agriculture, available in different electronic databases, with emphasis on their characteristics and application formats, aiming at promoting sustainable agricultural production. A thorough search of the Google Scholar, GitHub, and GitLab electronic databases was performed for this purpose. Studies reporting and/or repositories containing up-to-date software were considered for this review. The various software packages were evaluated based on their characteristics and application formats. The search identified a total of 21 free and open-source software packages designed specifically for precision agriculture. Most of the identified software was shown to be extensible and customizable, while taking into account factors such as transparency, speed, and security, although some limitations were observed in terms of repository management and source control. This rapid review suggests that free and open-source software and sensor technology solutions play an important role in the management of natural resources in sustainable agricultural production, and highlights the main technological approaches towards this goal. Finally, while this review performs a preliminary assessment of existing free and open source solutions, additional research is needed to evaluate their effectiveness and usability in different scenarios, as well as their relevance in terms of environmental and economic impact on agricultural production.

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It’s Not Just GitHub: Identifying Data and Software Sources Included in Publications

Escamilla,

Salsabil,

Klein

et al. 2023

Lecture Notes in Computer Science

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The Rise of GitHub in Scholarly Publications

Cited by 9 publications

References 23 publications

Care to share? Experimental evidence on code sharing behavior in the social sciences

Care to share? Experimental evidence on code sharing behavior in the social sciences

A Rapid Review on the Use of Free and Open Source Technologies and Software Applied to Precision Agriculture Practices

It’s Not Just GitHub: Identifying Data and Software Sources Included in Publications

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