Replication of results

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There is a growing movement to make scientific and engineering research more useful by making it easier for potential users to access papers and to replicate their results. Structural and Multidisciplinary Optimization (SMO) has joined this movement by allowing authors to pay for open access of their papers and by recently requiring that papers have a section called Replication of Results (RR) intended to facilitate the reproduction by readers of the presented results. The phrase RR makes reference to the idea of providing a detailed enough description of the proposed model/method so that the results can be replicated to a degree consistent with the claims and conclusions drawn in the paper (Plesser 2018). This editorial has two objectives: (i) to outline the benefits to the community and the authors of the RR section and (ii) to present options available to authors to facilitate replication of results. …