[mkhorton]

> How do projects like this deal with papers published based on falsified data? Do they reproduce any of the source data themselves?

I can't speak to this specific instance, but Materials Project does try to pay close attention to questions of reproducibility and provenance. Materials Project runs open-source repos[0] so that its methods can be verified, individual calculations are available via an API[1] and we also partner with NOMAD[2] to make larger files and calculation artifacts available for direct download. This is in addition to documenting methods via peer-reviewed papers, online docs, etc.

This is not to say that issues of reproducibility don't still exist, or that we ourselves couldn't be doing better. It's a big problem in the community.

[0] https://github.com/materialsproject [1] https://api.materialsproject.org/docs [2] https://www.nomad-coe.eu