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Increasing the archival longevity of code
Is there a published list of best practices to ensure longevity of code, with an eye towards reproducible scientific results? (e.g. open source, documentation practices, selecting dependencies, ...
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good (free) software for producing publishable images?
I am producing 1d and 2d images using Matlab right now for comparison of accuracy against a given model. I need to compare my methods with the standard Gaussian .wfn model and I am going to do that by ...
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How should I report profiling/timing information about my code?
I've seen a lot of publications in Computational Physics journals use different metrics for the performance of their code. Especially for GPGPU code, there seems to be a great variety of timing ...
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Alternatives to Journal of Computational Physics
The Journal of Computational Physics has been an important outlet for computational science in the past, and I have published there before. For the benefit of those (like me) who have signed the ...
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Reporting curve-fit results in a scientific paper
(I hope this question fits this site; if not, accept my apologies).
I ran a certain simulation, and got a time series y(t), t = 0, 1, ... 20. After trying some functions, I found that:
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What material should I include with a journal article (or post online) in order to make my computational research reproducible?
Reproducibility has become more and more important in computational science research. (For instance, see this article by Roger Peng in Science; I'm aware of other such articles and web sites also.) ...
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reverse-lookup Digital Object Identifier given table of citations? [closed]
I asked this question on stackoverflow a few weeks ago, but have not gotten a useable answer, even after a colleague added a 150pt bounty.
Is it possible to query the doi for each record in a table ...
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Dictionaries in pseudocode
What is a good, common way to express dictionaries (= maps) in pseudocode? I.e. datastructures that basically allow to store values for keys, iterate over all key/value pairs, test for inclusion of a ...
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Open-access journals in Computational Science
In light of the recent petition to boycott Elsevier, I was wondering what options we have in Computational Science for
Journals which are completely open-access,
Journals which allow/support ...
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Is there a standard rating system for scientific journal publications?
I have heard that some journals are rated more highly than others. Is this true? And if so, what are the criteria for judging the value of one peer reviewed journal over another? How do I find out ...
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What is the best way to do reproducible research if you need proprietary libraries?
Reproducible research in computation aims to make the code needed to generate the results in a computational paper available to other researchers so that they can run this code to reproduce the ...
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How to link code to publications
Scholarly papers in scientific computing (and many other fields, nowadays) typically involve some amount of code or even whole software packages that were written specifically for that paper or were ...
