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tppiotrowski 7 hours ago

Maybe we need a journal completely dedicated to replication studies? It would attract a lot of attention I think.

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MichaelDickens 6 hours ago | parent | next [-]

Economics has the Journal of Comments and Replications in Economics: https://jcr-econ.org/

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fc417fc802 3 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

We already have archival journals. What's missing is funding and any prospect of career advancement.

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pfdietz 6 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

And funding dedicated to replication studies.

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fsckboy 5 hours ago | parent [-]

paid by the original authors if their study fails to replicate

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LargeWu 6 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

Is there a viable career path for researchers who choose to focus on replication instead of novel discoveries? I assume replications are perceived as less prestigious, but it's also important work.

	▲	cvwright an hour ago \| parent \| next [-]
		The closest thing we have is, in security / privacy / cryptography, you can write "attack" papers. It's not perfect. You don't get any credit unless you can demonstrate a substantial break of the prior work. But it's better than in a lot of other fields.
	▲	stanford_labrat 5 hours ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		sadly no, this is not a thing and it's critically needed. top on my list of things to do if i were a billionaire: launch an institute for the sole purpose of reproducing other's findings.