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ArticleOpen research Europe2023

Establishing a national research software award.

Isabelle Blanc Catala, Roberto Di Cosmo, Mathieu Giraud, Daniel Le Berre, Violaine Louvet, Sophie Renaudin, College of experts for source code and software Committee for Open Science

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Article in Open research Europe, 2023. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 1 paper.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

1 citing paper in PubMed.

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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

7 authors.

Isabelle Blanc CatalaMinistère de l'Enseignement supérieur et de la Recherche, F-75000 Paris, France.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3630-9064
Roberto Di CosmoInria, Université Paris Cité, F-75000 Paris, France.
Mathieu GiraudUniv. Lille, CNRS, Centrale Lille, UMR 9189 CRIStAL, Centre de Recherche en Informatique Signal et Automatique de Lille, F-59000 Lille, France.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2741-8047
Daniel Le BerreUniv. Artois, CNRS, UMR 8188, Centre de Recherche en Informatique de Lens, F-62300 Lens, France.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3221-9923
Violaine LouvetUniv. Grenoble Alpes, Grenoble INP Institute of Engineering, CNRS, UMR 5224 LJK, Laboratoire Jean Kuntzman, F-38000 Grenoble, France.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8742-8952
Sophie RenaudinDirection de la recherche clinique et de l'innovation, Assistance Publique - Hôpitaux de Paris, F-75000 Paris, France.
College of experts for source code and software Committee for Open Science

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Software development has become an integral part of the scholarly ecosystem, spanning all fields and disciplines. To support the sharing and creation of knowledge in line with open science principles, and particularly to enable the reproducibility of research results, it is crucial to make the source code of research software available, allowing for modification, reuse, and distribution. Recognizing the significance of open-source software contributions in academia, the second French Plan for Open Science, announced by the Minister of Higher Education and Research in 2021, introduced a National Award to promote open-source research software. This award serves multiple objectives: firstly, to highlight the software projects and teams that have devoted time and effort to develop outstanding research software, sometimes for decades, and often with little recognition; secondly, to draw attention to the importance of software as a valuable research output and to inspire new generations of researchers to follow and learn from these examples. We present here an in-depth analysis of the design and implementation of this unique initiative. As a national award established explicitly to foster Open Science practices by the French Minister of Research, it faced the intricate challenge of fairly evaluating open research software across all fields, striving for inclusivity across domains, applications, and participants. We provide a comprehensive report on the results of the first edition, which received 129 high-quality submissions. Additionally, we emphasize the impact of this initiative on the open science landscape, promoting software as a valuable research outcome, on par with publications.

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institutional supportknowledge sharingopen scienceopen-source softwareresearch assessmentresearch infrastructureresearch policyresearch softwaresoftware engineering

Identifiers

PMID38009089
PMCPMC10674088

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