The Replication Tax: Shifting the Financial Burden to Incentivize Reproducibility in Computational Research

R. Nagler and D. Bruhwiler
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Despite the innate reproducibility of software, computational science continues to struggle with reproducibility. The GSI mandate to establish best practices for computational reproducibility in high-performance geospatial software is a platform to change the behavior of computational scientists. We propose an economic approach: a “replication tax” on all publications in high-performance geospatial science. The easier it is to replicate research results, the less it costs authors to demonstrate their results are replicable.

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