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Idea: create a journal that is GitHub based.

It generates any data plots/tables through CI, which means you need to have your data available and consumable, and containerised code. Its PR reviewers are scientists doing peer review.

Then you get public review and comment, reproducible environments, and open data.

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I like the idea a lot. I don't expect a lot of feedback/reviews from other scientists, there are just not that many and they are likely busy with something else

You could still have assigned reviewers like in a conventional journal, which maybe if done right could stimulate broader discussion

JOSS has a review process like this, but I don’t think I’ve heard of any journals focused on primary scientific results using this kind of GitHub based review process

https://joss.readthedocs.io/en/latest/submitting.html#the-re...

Thanks! I was thinking an actual journal that would have a subscription.

I wonder if it could also get people to sponsor replication studies, and publish them linked alongside.

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