TY - JOUR A1 - Pfenninger, Stefan A1 - DeCarolis, Joseph A1 - Hirth, Lion A1 - Quoilin, Sylvain A1 - Staffell, Iain T1 - The importance of open data and software: Is energy research lagging behind? JF - Energy Policy N2 - Energy policy often builds on insights gained from quantitative energy models and their underlying data. As climate change mitigation and economic concerns drive a sustained transformation of the energy sector, transparent and well-founded analyses are more important than ever. We assert that models and their associated data must be openly available to facilitate higher quality science, greater productivity through less duplicated effort, and a more effective science-policy boundary. There are also valid reasons why data and code are not open: ethical and security concerns, unwanted exposure, additional workload, and institutional or personal inertia. Overall, energy policy research ostensibly lags behind other fields in promoting more open and reproducible science. We take stock of the status quo and propose actionable steps forward for the energy research community to ensure that it can better engage with decision-makers and continues to deliver robust policy advice in a transparent and reproducible way. KW - Modelling KW - Data KW - Open source KW - Open data KW - Transparency KW - Reproducibility Y1 - 2016 UR - http://nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn:nbn:de:kobv:b1570-opus4-22791 SN - 0301-4215 VL - 101 SP - 211 EP - 215 PB - Elsevier Ltd ER -