
In open science, universities are key to fostering adoption of best practices and can encourage these best practices through academic evaluation processes. Promotion and tenure committees are one of these processes. Committees often have the capability to evaluate articles and books, but assessing data and software is a recent development for which there are few guidelines.
In this episode, Shannon and Briana go through ten proposed simple rules for recognizing data and software contributions.
Article citation: Puebla I, Ascoli GA, Blume J, Chodacki J, Finnell J, Kennedy DN, et al. (2024) Ten simple rules for recognizing data and software contributions in hiring, promotion, and tenure. PLoS Comput Biol 20(8): e1012296. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pcbi.1012296