[tkt]

This journal also is also encouraging and rewarding good software development practices, such as documentation, licensing, having the code in version control and testing. These practices are sadly not common in scientific software, partly because there is little academic reward.

[kriro]

This is a very important observation. There are plenty of academic "we build software X" papers there's even a method specifically for these types of papers: design science, Hevner et al. etc. but almost all of them never mention how to get the software, how it's licensed etc...theoretically that software couldn't exist and I'd be none the wiser.