生物医学期刊开放代码政策调研

An empirical analysis of open code policies of biomedical journals

【目的】系统梳理生物医学期刊开放代码政策,了解期刊政策在出版结果的代码公开可用性方面发挥的作用。【方法】对152种生物医学期刊的作者说明和编辑政策进行人工审查,以分析期刊对开放代码的要求。【结果】63.82%的期刊不同程度上要求作者开放代码,61.86%的期刊明确提到版权或许可67.01%的期刊并未提及开放代码的处理方式。【结论】开放获取期刊的开放代码政策比传统订阅制期刊更普遍,公共在线存储库是大多数期刊推荐的公开代码存储平台,高影响因子期刊出台开放代码政策的概率比低影响因子期刊高。

[Purposes] This study systematically reviews the open code policy of biomedical journals to understand the role of journal policies in the code availability of the published results.[Methods] The author’s guidelines and editorial policies of 152 biomedical journals were manually reviewed to analyze open code requirements of journals.[Findings] A total of 63. 82% of journals require authors to open code to varying degrees,and 61.86% of journals explicitly mention copyright or license,but 67.01%of journals do not mention howthey deal with open code.[Conclusions] Open access journals are more likely to introduce open code policies than traditional subscription journals,and public online repository is the recommended platform for most journals.Besides,high-impact journals are more likely to introduce open code policies than low-impact journals.