Open Code and Peer Review

Stephen Eglen; Erik Lieungh

doi:10.7557/19.5311

Stephen Eglen University of Cambridge https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8607-8025
Erik Lieungh UiT The Arctic University of Norway

Keywords: academic publications, code, data, datadriven, library, Norway, Open Access, Open Code, Open Data, Open Science, Open Peer Review, peer review, publishing, scholarly publishing, science, Tromsø, UiT, vitenskap, CodeCheck

Abstract

In this episode, we are talking about code and the benefits of making your code available in a peer review process and having it checked. Our guest is Dr. Stephen Eglen from the department of Applied Mathematics and Theoretical Physics at the University of Cambridge. Together with Dr. Daniel Nüst, from the University of Münster, he has created CodeCheck – an Open Science initiative to facilitate the sharing of computer programs and results presented in scientific publications.

The host of this episode is Erik Lieungh.

This episode was first published 20 January 2020.

Author Biographies

Stephen Eglen, University of Cambridge

Stephen Eglen is a Reader in Computational Neuroscience, in the Department of Applied Mathematics and Theoretical Physics, University of Cambridge. He has a long-standing interest in open science and reproducible research.

He attended the 14th Munin Conference on Scholarly Publishing with the presentation CODECHECK: An open-science initiative to facilitate sharing of computer programs and results presented in scientific publications.

Erik Lieungh, UiT The Arctic University of Norway

Erik Lieungh is a digital adviser at the University Library and the host and editor of Open Science Talk.