Open AccessAn introduction to the special issue on Geoscience Papers of the Future
Author(s) -
David Cédric H.,
Gil Yolanda,
Duffy Christopher J.,
Peckham Scott D.,
Venayagamoorthy S. Karan
Publication year - 2016
Publication title -
earth and space science
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.843
H-Index - 23
ISSN - 2333-5084
DOI - 10.1002/2016ea000201
Subject(s) - wonder , transparency (behavior) , scholarship , computer science , data science , process (computing) , space (punctuation) , quality (philosophy) , set (abstract data type) , engineering ethics , earth science , political science , epistemology , engineering , geology , law , philosophy , computer security , operating system , programming language
Advocates of enhanced quality for published scientific results are increasingly voicing the need for further transparency of data and software for scientific reproducibility. However, such advanced digital scholarship can appear perplexing to geoscientists that are seduced by the concept of open science yet wonder about the exact mechanics and implications of the associated efforts. This special issue of Earth and Space Science entitled “Geoscience Papers of the Future” includes a review of existing best practices for digital scholarship and bundles a set of example articles that share their digital research products and reflect on the process of opening their scientific approach in a common quest for reproducible science.