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Re:Why we need to create careers for research software engin... by Retric on Thursday November 12, 2015 @07:55PM (#10557325)
If your research code is a big ball of mud then all it's results are meaningless. And all your research should be rejected by any competent journal. Sadly, journals tend to ignore such huge issues.

But, hey it's not like reproduceable results are important in science or anything.

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Re:Why we need to create careers for research software engin... by mbreese on Thursday November 12, 2015 @08:43PM (#10557515)
The more computational journals are keeping track of this. I've had a manuscript returned for revision because I didn't have enough unit testing in the code. Wet-lab journals, on the other hand, probably let a lot of stuff go on the computation and statistics than they should.
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