Review of
"City-regional demographic composition and the fortunes of regional second cities"

Review of "City-regional demographic composition and the fortunes of regional second cities"

Submitted by maryamn15  

Oct. 14, 2022, 1:20 p.m.

Lead reviewer

maryamn15

Review Body

Reproducibility

Did you manage to reproduce it?
Partially Reproducible
Reproducibility rating
How much of the paper did you manage to reproduce?
2 / 10
Briefly describe the procedure followed/tools used to reproduce it

We downloaded the zipped github, Opened it in R, and Run the script. It ran perfectly in 2 different machines, however, the only figure that matched a figure from the paper was figure 1, and there were slight differences in the cluster generated and the location of some cities.

Briefly describe your familiarity with the procedure/tools used by the paper.

We are familiar with R, but not with the details of the scientific research done.

Which type of operating system were you working in?
Windows Operating System
What additional software did you need to install?

We needed to install the "factoextra" package.

What software did you use

R and R Studio.

What were the main challenges you ran into (if any)?

None.

What were the positive features of this approach?

The script ran without any changes on 2 different machines.

Any other comments/suggestions on the reproducibility approach?

It would be nice to link to the software from the paper; if we only had the paper, we would not know that the script existed.


Documentation

Documentation rating
How well was the material documented?
0 / 10
How could the documentation be improved?

There should be documentation, if even just the readme file.

What do you like about the documentation?

There was no documentation.

After attempting to reproduce, how familiar do you feel with the code and methods used in the paper?
0 / 10
Any suggestions on how the analysis could be made more transparent?

We did not need to look at the code, and we just ran it.


Reusability

Reusability rating
Rate the project on reusability of the material
4 / 10
Permissive Data license included:  
Permissive Code license included:  

Any suggestions on how the project could be more reusable?
  • There is no accessibility to the code through the other websites and journal websites.
  • There is no documentation for the code, like readme.


Any final comments

Good effort for the script, because it ran perfectly.