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Replication studies in economics : how many and which papers are chosen for replication, and why?
Müller-Langer, Frank; Fecher, Benedikt; Harhoff, Dietmar; … - 2018
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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011980966
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The economics of replication
Müller-Langer, Frank; Fecher, Benedikt; Harhoff, Dietmar; … - 2017
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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011607618
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The economics of replication
Müller-Langer, Frank; Fecher, Benedikt; Harhoff, Dietmar; … - 2017
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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011595497
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The economics of replication
Müller-Langer, Frank; Fecher, Benedikt; Harhoff, Dietmar; … - 2017
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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011595803
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Flipping journals to open : rethinking publishing infrastructure
Fecher, Benedikt; Wagner, Gert G. - 2015
Open access means that research outputs, such as articles and data, are free of restrictions on access and free of … about open access must include a discussion about research infrastructure and innovation in academic publishing. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011411236
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A reputation economy : results from an empirical survey on academic data sharing
Fecher, Benedikt; Friesike, Sascha; Hebing, Marcel; … - 2015
research landscape. It enables researchers to verify results and to pursuit new research questions with "old" data. It is … sharing or withholding research data. The results for 1564 valid responses show that researchers across disciplines recognise … the benefit of secondary research data for their own work and for scientific progress as a whole - still they only …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010483601
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A reputation economy : results from an empirical survey on academic data sharing
Fecher, Benedikt; Friesike, Sascha; Hebing, Marcel; … - 2015
research landscape. It enables researchers to verify results and to pursuit new research questions with “old” data. It is … sharing or withholding research data. The results for 1564 valid responses show that researchers across disciplines recognise … the benefit of secondary research data for their own work and for scientific progress as a whole—still they only practice …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010488276
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Research parasites are beneficial for the organism as a whole : competition between researchers creates a symbiotic relationship
Fecher, Benedikt; Wagner, Gert G. - 2016
concern is that a "new class of research person will emerge" that uses data, which were gathered by other researchers, for … their own original research questions. The authors referred to this class of researcher as "research parasites". Longo and … of data sharing by research communities by introducing citations of data sets, bestowing awards for good datasets, and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011458081