Tim Rakow

Estimating the Prevalence of Replication Research Is Challenging, Not Least Because Even a Thorough Database Search Can Be Shallow

Replication—duplicating methods to reexamine findings—is the bedrock of science. To survey this foundation for psychological science, Makel et al. (2012) searched 100 psychology journals, finding that all-fields database searches for replicat* returned 2% to 3% of articles. Codin...