Replication studies are considered a hallmark of good scientific practice. Yet they are treated among researchers as an … ideal to be professed but not practiced. To provide incentives and favorable boundary conditions for replication practice …, the main stakeholders need to be aware of what drives replication. Here we investigate how often replication studies are …

Replication studies are considered a hallmark of good scientific practice. Yet they are treated among researchers as an … ideal to be professed but not practiced. To provide incentives and favorable boundary conditions for replication practice …, the main stakeholders need to be aware of what drives replication. Here we investigate how often replication studies are …

We investigate how often replication studies are published in empirical economics and what types of journal articles … are eventually replicated. We find that from 1974 to 2014 0.10% of publications in the Top 50 economics journals were … replications. We take into account the results of replication (negating or reinforcing) and the extent of replication: narrow …

This chapter examines the contributions that economists have made to the study of science and the types of …

This paper aims to provide insights for those who value careful, precise communication to draft effective economics …

. -- Science ; evaluation ; European economics ; United Kingdom ; peer-review ; Research Excellence Framework (REF) ; citations … well spent. Is there an objective way to assess the quality of a nation's world-leading science? I attempt to suggest a … method, and illustrate it with modern data on economics. Of 450 genuinely world-leading journal articles, the UK produced 10 …