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RMZ Jour fixe/ The (anti)social replication of replication: exploring how replication moves across epistemic communities

Sheena F. Bartscherer (RMZ, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Germany), Sven Ulpts (Danish Centre for Studies in Research and Research Policy, Aarhus University, Denmark), Bart Penders (School for Public Health and Primary Care, Maastricht University, Netherlands), Sarahanne Field (Faculty of Behavioural and Social Sciences, University of Groningen, Netherlands)

  • When Dec 10, 2025 from 11:00 to 12:30
  • Where RMZ, Schönhauser Allee 10/11 in Raum 4.35 and via Zoom
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Since claims about a ‘replication crisis’ started to circulate, the concept and practice of replication have gained new momentum. Some communities have started to promote replication indiscriminately as a practice and criterion for research quality irrespective of the diverse research communities’ various conditions and ways of knowledge production. Others have identified a replication drive, which involves moving replication into various research communities. This drive is enacted by incentivizing or demanding replication and related Open Science practices, and forms part of a culture change strategy towards increased replicability. Here, we propose the two-dimensional social replication of replication framework. It describes the process of moving replication across epistemic communities and enables us to understand first how the diverse epistemic communities across the research landscape relate to replication as a concept, practice and evaluative criterion and, second, which changes it undergoes along the way. The framework’s two dimensions are adaptation and adoption. Moving replication into different research communities without sufficient adaptation may lead to a potentially problematic and inappropriate social replication of replication. We thus argue that sustainable and appropriate social replication of replication requires adaptation, or more precisely a process of co-adaptation between replication and a community’s already established technologies of accountability.

Sheena F. Bartscherer

Sven Ulpts

Bart Penders

Sarahanne Field

 

 

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