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Hi,

On 23 May 2014 10:47, Adam Huffman <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> On Thu, May 22, 2014 at 4:36 PM, Jensen, Jens (STFC,RAL,SC)
> <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>
>> This sounds very sensible. Someone suggested somewhere that writing code
>> and publishing it even counts as a publication, and could be referenced
>> with a DOI or something.  If in the Glorious Future(tm) all data
>> associated with a publication is published, so should be the codes used
>> to analyse it, so people can verify the results.  It was even suggested
>> that software be peer reviewed.
>>
>> Apologies for being vague in the attributions; I genuinely cannot
>> remember where the idea came from - I don't think it was one of my own.
>>
>
> I feel obliged to mention that these ideas have been around in other
> disciplines (e.g. Life Sciences, where I was for 12 years before
> coming to Imperial) for a long time...
>
> E.G. http://f1000research.com/about plus many others
>

And in physics too (my old discipline of Condensed Matter physics, for
example, has cited software going back at least a decade).

Sam

>
> Cheers,
> Adam