How reproducible is ecology?

Aud and Matt

Reproducibilty

The Turing Way Community. This illustration is created by Scriberia with The Turing Way community, used under a CC-BY 4.0 licence. DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.3332807

Data and code availability

Culina A, van den Berg I, Evans S, Sánchez-Tójar A (2020) Low availability of code in ecology: A call for urgent action. PLOS Biology 18(7): e3000763. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pbio.3000763

Reviewed papers from 6 journals (2023-2025)

Figure 1: Number of papers reviewed in 2023: 44, 2024: 59, 2025: 59

Data and code availability (2023–2025)

Figure 2: Data and code availability by year.

2023–2025: data and code availability by journal

Figure 3

Exercise (1/2)

Make 6 groups.

Choose one of the following journals and select a random issue from 2026:

  • Methods in Ecology and Evolution

  • Journal of Ecology

  • OIKOS

  • American Naturalist

  • Journal of Animal Ecology

  • Ecological Monographs

Exercise (2/2)

For each paper in this issue check:

  • Is the data available and can you download it? Repo or supplement file? In what format is the data available (xlsx, csv, txt, etc.)?

  • Is the code available? Choose one figure/analysis. Is the data and code for this figure/analysis available? Try to run the code, can you replicate the figure/analysis.

  • Add the data to this google spreadsheet and get a snack 🍪