EAGER: Developing a framework to identify and mitigate perceptual and technical barriers in code sharing to facilitate reproducible and transparent research

该项目将对公开研究代码的障碍和策略进行探索性研究。虽然在为开放科学和可再现性的目的使研究数据集可供使用方面取得了重大进展，但研究项目中开发的代码和其他形式的软件较少经常持久地提供。在科学研究中，不仅必须公布研究设计、方法、结果和解释的详细描述，而且迫切需要使所有研究产品(包括代码和软件)公开、可共享、良好记录和组织，以促进可重复和透明的研究。确保研究可重复的一个重要研究产品是用于分析的分析代码。与科学期刊和研究组织广泛执行的共享数据相比，关于代码共享的指导意见有限，除了数据外，代码共享是可重复和严格研究的重要组成部分。该项目将产生：a)描述性信息，将通过电话会议一对一约谈以及向5,000名随机挑选的、得到国家科学基金会和(或)国家卫生研究院支持的首席调查人员分发调查；b)通过与知情专家，特别是对代码共享和可复制研究有浓厚兴趣的科学期刊编辑举行一系列有条理的电话会议，提出代码共享的建议；和c)成立研究代码联盟(RCA)，以开发一个框架，以减少代码共享中的感知和技术障碍，以促进可重复和透明的研究。该奖项反映了NSF的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的智力优势和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估，被认为值得支持。

This project will conduct exploratory research into the barriers and strategies for making research code publicly accessible. While there has been significant progress in making research datasets accessible for purposes of open science and reproducibility, code and other forms of software developed in research projects are less frequently made available persistently. In scientific research, it is not only imperative to publish a detailed description of the study design, methodology, results, and interpretation, but there is a pressing need to make all the research products (including code and software) publicly available, shareable, well documented, and organized to facilitate reproducible and transparent research.An important research product that is an essential element ensuring reproducible research is the analytic code used for the analysis. In contrast to sharing data, which is widely enforced by scientific journals and research organizations, there is limited guidance on code sharing which in addition to data represents an essential component of reproducible and rigorous research. The project will result in: A) Descriptive information which will be collected through one-to-one interviews through teleconferencing, as well as by distributing surveys across 5,000 randomly selected principal investigators who were supported by NSF and/or NIH, B) Recommendations for code sharing to be developed through a series of structured teleconferences with informed experts, notably editors of scientific journals with a strong interest in code sharing and reproducible research, and C) Formation of a Research Code Alliance (RCA) to develop a framework to mitigate perceptual and technical barriers in code sharing to facilitate reproducible and transparent research.This award reflects NSF's statutory mission and has been deemed worthy of support through evaluation using the Foundation's intellectual merit and broader impacts review criteria.