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|Term=Mature research methods or infrastructures
|Description=have been used for a sufficiently long period of time to enable the detection and removal of initial shortcomings and problems, a deeper understanding of essential performance characteristics, and possibly enhanced usability by professional and non-professional users. Methods and infrastructures at varying levels of maturity are regularly used in research, and maturation of the methods and infrastructures can be an essential part of the research process. Documentation and support can be seen as additional elements of maturity and openness. Maturity levels in open research software can cover, for instance: 1) the availability of a repository for raw source code that documents how the analyses could be reproduced and has been released with an open source licence; 2) additional design choices and documentation to make the code/software more generally applicable beyond the immediate original use; 3) a full software library that follows good design practices, such as comprehensive unit tests and other recommendations; 4) provision of a fully reproducible data analytical workflow that covers the complete details from raw data to reporting. In qualitative fields, the maturity of the method could refer, for instance, to a protocol or questionnaire that has been more extensively tested and developed across multiple studies. Mature methods can also help to standardise research.
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