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The term reproducible research refers to the idea that the ultimate product of academic research is the paper along with the laboratory notebooks and full computational environment used to produce the results in the paper such as the code, data, etc. that can be used to reproduce the results and create new work based on the research.
In Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia. Retrieved May 4,2020 from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reproducibility
Association for Computing Machinery (https://www.acm.org/) has adopted the following definitions:
Repeatability (Same team, same experimental setup): The measurement can be obtained with stated precision by the same team using the same measurement procedure, the same measuring system, under the same operating conditions, in the same location on multiple trials. For computational experiments, this means that a researcher can reliably repeat her own computation.
Replicability (Different team, same experimental setup): The measurement can be obtained with stated precision by a different team using the same measurement procedure, the same measuring system, under the same operating conditions, in the same or a different location on multiple trials. For computational experiments, this means that an independent group can obtain the same result using the author's own artifacts.
Reproducibility (Different team, different experimental setup): The measurement can be obtained with stated precision by a different team, a different measuring system, in a different location on multiple trials. For computational experiments, this means that an independent group can obtain the same result using artifacts which they develop completely independently.
Resource: 3: 04333 (2014)
Insufficient, incomplete, or inaccurate reporting of methodologies, lack of information about research resources makes it difficult or impossible to determine what was used in a published study.
Resource: Science 327: 1571 (2010)
Male rodents are cheaper and easier to work with than females, but scientists worry that research done on males alone won't apply across the sexes.
Resource: Nature 530: 141 (2016)
In 2012, Amgen researchers declared that they had been unable to reproduce the findings in 47 of 53 “landmark” cancer papers (Nature 483: 531, 2012).
Document everything!,
Everything is a (text) file,
All files should be human readable,
Explicitly tie your files together,
Have a plan to organize, store, and make your files available.
8 Steps Towards Making Research Reproducible:
1. Organize your data and code
4. Turn scripts into reproducible reports
5. Turn repeated code into functions
6. Package functions for reuse