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j_m_b on Feb 23, 2017 | parent | context | favorite | on: Most scientists 'can't replicate studies by their ...

One heuristic I use for scientific papers is "Does it have supplementary materials and what are their quality?"

Supplementary materials is where you put raw data and the 'howtos'. It is not just a place to cram in extra figures that wouldn't fit.

wycx on Feb 23, 2017 [–]

Why is it that journals find it impossible to append the pdf supplement to the pdf of the paper?

I recall seeing only a couple of journals than manage to do this for errata.

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