On the Need for a Replication Journal

Christian Zimmermann

No 2015-16, Working Papers from Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis

Abstract: There is very little replication of research in economics, particularly compared with other sciences. This paper argues that there is a dire need for studies that replicate research, that their scarcity is due to poor or negative rewards for replicators, and that this could be improved with a journal that exclusively publishes replication studies. I then discuss how such a journal could be organized, in particular in the face of some negative rewards some replication studies may elicit.

JEL-codes: A1 B4 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 16 pages
Date: 2015-08-07
New Economics Papers: this item is included in nep-ger, nep-hme, nep-hpe, nep-pke and nep-sog
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DOI: 10.20955/wp.2015.016

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