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Generating Reproducible Supplementary Materials With AI Help
Supplementary materials are often the bottleneck of submission. AI can help generate code documentation, data dictionaries, and reproducibility appendices — when paired with verification.
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- 1The premise
- 2supplementary materials
- 3reproducibility
- 4data dictionary
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Section 1
The premise
Supplementary materials matter for reproducibility but get rushed at submission; AI generates strong drafts so authors can focus on verification.
What AI does well here
- Generate code documentation from your analysis scripts (function signatures, parameters, expected outputs)
- Draft data dictionaries from your dataset (variable names, types, units, missing-value handling)
- Produce the reproducibility appendix following journal-specific requirements
- Generate the README for your code repository
What AI cannot do
- Substitute for actually testing that your reproducibility instructions work
- Replace the author's responsibility for accurate documentation
- Generate documentation for code or data the AI hasn't seen
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