Navigating the Landscape of Reproducible Research: A Predictive Modeling Approach

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Hauptverfasser: Akella, Akhil Pandey, Choudhury, Sagnik Ray, Koop, David, Alhoori, Hamed
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author Akella, Akhil Pandey
Choudhury, Sagnik Ray
Koop, David
Alhoori, Hamed
author_facet Akella, Akhil Pandey
Choudhury, Sagnik Ray
Koop, David
Alhoori, Hamed
contents The reproducibility of scientific articles is central to the advancement of science. Despite this importance, evaluating reproducibility remains challenging due to the scarcity of ground truth data. Predictive models can address this limitation by streamlining the tedious evaluation process. Typically, a paper's reproducibility is inferred based on the availability of artifacts such as code, data, or supplemental information, often without extensive empirical investigation. To address these issues, we utilized artifacts of papers as fundamental units to develop a novel, dual-spectrum framework that focuses on author-centric and external-agent perspectives. We used the author-centric spectrum, followed by the external-agent spectrum, to guide a structured, model-based approach to quantify and assess reproducibility. We explored the interdependencies between different factors influencing reproducibility and found that linguistic features such as readability and lexical diversity are strongly correlated with papers achieving the highest statuses on both spectrums. Our work provides a model-driven pathway for evaluating the reproducibility of scientific research. The code, methods, and artifacts for our study are publicly available at: https://github.com/reproducibilityproject/NLRR/
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spellingShingle Navigating the Landscape of Reproducible Research: A Predictive Modeling Approach
Akella, Akhil Pandey
Choudhury, Sagnik Ray
Koop, David
Alhoori, Hamed
Digital Libraries
I.2; I.6.5; H.3.7
The reproducibility of scientific articles is central to the advancement of science. Despite this importance, evaluating reproducibility remains challenging due to the scarcity of ground truth data. Predictive models can address this limitation by streamlining the tedious evaluation process. Typically, a paper's reproducibility is inferred based on the availability of artifacts such as code, data, or supplemental information, often without extensive empirical investigation. To address these issues, we utilized artifacts of papers as fundamental units to develop a novel, dual-spectrum framework that focuses on author-centric and external-agent perspectives. We used the author-centric spectrum, followed by the external-agent spectrum, to guide a structured, model-based approach to quantify and assess reproducibility. We explored the interdependencies between different factors influencing reproducibility and found that linguistic features such as readability and lexical diversity are strongly correlated with papers achieving the highest statuses on both spectrums. Our work provides a model-driven pathway for evaluating the reproducibility of scientific research. The code, methods, and artifacts for our study are publicly available at: https://github.com/reproducibilityproject/NLRR/
title Navigating the Landscape of Reproducible Research: A Predictive Modeling Approach
topic Digital Libraries
I.2; I.6.5; H.3.7
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2410.18276