Our post lunch session examined what some journals were doing as early adopters of ‘high bar’ reproducibility requirements for authors articles to be accepted.
Lars Vilhuber, of Cornell University and Data Editor of the American Economic Association.
The AEA have been early adopters of data and code mexico rcs data availability to support research publications, appoint a dedicated Data Editor in 2017. The AEA journals require well- documented analysis and code and details of the computations that are sufficient to allow replication; and these should be openly available. The AEA uses pre-publication verification, where certain quality standards around citation, metadata, the Readme, code and its reproducibility must be met by authors. These are deposited in the AEA Data and Code Repository
The process is necessarily labour-intensive, as each undergoes 2 rounds of assessment. Lars encourages students to help with this process, and his team – currently compromising around 14 undergraduates and a graduate assistant, meet a turnaround goal of 2 weeks per article. From the training and experience, it is clear that these students learn to be better FAIR scientists.