ReSA

Our mission

To bring research software communities together to collaborate on the advancement of research software.

How we can help

Community

Engage in collaborative projects

Software matters

A UK survey of 1,000 randomly chosen researchers showed that more than 90% of researchers acknowledged software as being important for their own research, and about 70% of researchers said that their research would not be possible without software [1]. A study of Nature papers from Jan-March 2016 reveals that “32 of the 40 papers examined mention software, and the 32 papers contain 211 mentions of distinct pieces of software, for an average of 6.5 mentions per paper.” [2].

[1] Hettrick. S. J., et al. (2014). UK Research Software Survey 2014 [Data set]. doi:10.5281/zenodo.14809

[2] Nangia, Udit; Katz, Daniel S. (2017): Understanding Software in Research: Initial Results from Examining Nature and a Call for Collaboration. doi:10.1109/eScience.2017.78

90%	70%	6.5 avg
software important for own research	own research not possible without research	distict software mentions per paper

Without data it’s difficult to validate results. But without code, we waste the opportunity to advance science.

Neil Chue Hong, Director, Software Sustainability Institute, Director, University of Edinburgh, UK

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Our mission

To bring research software communities together to collaborate on the advancement of research software.

How we can help

Research

Enable better and more efficient research

Community

Engage in collaborative projects

Policy

Support policies that recognise and value research software

Software matters

Without data it’s difficult to validate results. But without code, we waste the opportunity to advance science.

Neil Chue Hong, Director, Software Sustainability Institute, Director, University of Edinburgh, UK