The concept of reproducible research

The possibility of replicating studies and researches is essential for strengthening the scientific evidence of the related outcomes. Especially when it comes to public trials of the influence on important social decision-making processes; it is particularly relevant to disclose all data sets, analytical methods, and related findings. By enabling such transparency, it is possible for every interested person to reproduce the results of any scientific research. With this approach, all findings can be checked for accuracy and are thus, possibly, corrected or confirmed by third-parties, even though an analysis can be reproducible and still not valid. A basic reproducible workflow could look like the following: