Science is running a poll titled “The Well-Behaved Scientist” this week that asks “how should we promote publication of data that can be replicated and reproduced?” Of the ideas on their list — more funding from funding agencies, more rewards from institutions — conspicuous in its absence is the rather fundamental idea that thepurposeof scientific journals, includingScience, is to publish reproducible research.
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