{{Infobox journal | title = ReScience C | cover = | former_name = | abbreviation = ReSci. C | discipline = Reproducibility | editor = Olivia Guest, Benoît Girard, Konrad Hinsen, Nicolas Rougier | publisher = GitHub | country = | history = 2015–present | frequency = Continuous | openaccess = Yes | license = CC BY 4.0 | impact = | impact-year = | ISSN = | eISSN = 2430-3658 | CODEN = | JSTOR = | LCCN = | OCLC = 1272925149 | website = https://rescience.github.io/ | link2 = https://rescience.github.io/read/ | link2-name = Online archive }} '''''ReScience C''''' is a scientific journal established in 2015 by Nicolas Rougier and Konrad Hinsen with the aim of publishing researchers' attempts to replicate computations made by other authors, using independently written, free and open-source software (FOSS), with an open process of peer review.<ref name="Nature_ReScienceC" /> The journal states that requiring the replication software to be free and open-source ensures the reproducibility of the original research.<ref name="ReScienceC_aboutus" />
==Creation== The journal was established in 2015 by Nicolas Rougier and Konrad Hinsen in the context of the replication crisis of the early 2010s, in which concern about difficulty in replicating (different data or details of method) or reproducing (same data, same method) peer-reviewed, published research papers was widely discussed.<ref name="replicability_crisis" /> The journal's scope is computational research, with the motivation that journals rarely require the provision of source code, and when source code is provided, it is rarely checked against the results claimed in the research article.<ref name="Sustainable_comp_sci" />
==Policies and methods== The scope of the journal is mainly focussed on researchers' attempts to replicate computations made by other authors, using independently written, free and open-source software (FOSS).<ref name="Nature_ReScienceC" /> Articles are submitted using the "issues" feature of a git repository run by GitHub, together with other online archiving services, including Zenodo and Software Heritage. Peer review takes place publicly in the same "issues" online format.<ref name="ReScienceC_authors" />
In 2020, ''Nature'' reported on the results of the journal's "Ten Years' Reproducibility Challenge", in which scientists were asked to try reproducing the results from peer-reviewed articles that they had published at least ten years earlier, using the same data and software if possible, updated to a modern software environment and free licensing.<ref name="Nature_ReScienceC" /> {{As of|2020|08|24}}, out of 35 researchers who had proposed to reproduce the results of 43 of their old articles, 28 reports had been written, 13 had been accepted after peer review and published, among which 11 documented successful reproductions.<ref name="Nature_ReScienceC" />
==References== <references>
<ref name="Nature_ReScienceC">{{cite journal | last1 = Perkel | first1 = Jeffrey M. | title = Challenge to scientists: does your ten-year-old code still run? | journal = Nature | volume = 584 | pages = 656–658 | date = 2020-08-24 | issue = 7822 | doi = 10.1038/d41586-020-02462-7 | pmid = 32839567 | doi-access = | bibcode = 2020Natur.584..656P}}</ref>
<ref name="ReScienceC_aboutus">{{cite web | title= Reproducible Science is good. Replicated Science is better. | website= GitHub |year = 2020 | url = https://rescience.github.io/ | access-date = 2020-08-31 |archive-url= https://archive.today/20200831021825/https://rescience.github.io/ |archive-date= 2020-08-31 |url-status=live }}</ref>
<ref name="ReScienceC_authors">{{cite web | title= Overview of the submission process | website= GitHub |year = 2020 | url = https://rescience.github.io/write | access-date = 2020-08-31 |archive-url= https://archive.today/20200831023947/https://rescience.github.io/write/ |archive-date= 2020-08-31 |url-status=live }}</ref>
<ref name="replicability_crisis">{{Cite journal | doi = 10.1177/1745691612465253| title = Editors' Introduction to the Special Section on Replicability in Psychological Science: A Crisis of Confidence?| journal = Perspectives on Psychological Science| volume = 7| issue = 6| pages = 528–530| year = 2012| last1=Pashler|first1=Harold |last2=Wagenmakers | first2=Eric Jan| pmid=26168108| s2cid = 26361121}}</ref>
<ref name="Sustainable_comp_sci">{{cite journal | last1 =Rougier | first1 =Nicolas P. | last2=Hinsen | first2=Konrad | title = Sustainable computational science: the ReScience initiative | journal = PeerJ Computer Science | volume = 3 | pages = e142 | date = 2017-12-18 | doi = 10.7717/peerj-cs.142 | pmid =34722870 | pmc =8530091 | arxiv=1707.04393 |bibcode=2017arXiv170704393R | s2cid =7392801 | doi-access =free }}</ref>
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==External links==
*{{Official website|https://rescience.github.io/}}
* free-licensed images by Nicolas Rougier, co-editor of ''ReScience C''
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