A tale of two cultures: Revisiting journal editors' views of replication research

While replications are an important and integral component of the scientific method, and are common in the natural science literature, the usefulness of replication research is not as widely practiced in the social sciences. The authors previously (1995, 2000) investigated the prevalence of replication research by soliciting journal editors' perceptions of their disciplines' attitudes toward such work. Originally, two studies questioned editors...