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Updates from Replication Research: First Decisions, Press Coverage, and Upcoming Events

2026-06-29

Replication Research (R2) has been busy! This is to share our most recent milestones: our first peer review report is now publicly available on Zenodo, first editorial decisions have been made, and in line with our review procedure, reviewer comments have been posted publicly on PubPeer. The ZBW Open Economics Guide published a profile of R2 with practical tips for authors new to replication research, and the Research on Research Institute (RoRI) featured replications in their Go Meta! blog. R2 will also be represented at the Replication Hub Showcase on July 1st (you can still register here). Finally, we've made some design improvements to the journal website. Read on for details and links.

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Replication Research is a Diamond Open Access Journal with strict and entirely transparent quality control and no article processing charges. We publish close and conceptual replications as well as reproductions.

Valuing high-quality replication research and interdisciplinary discussions

Replications, that is the repeated testing of previously published claims, should be the foundation for cumulative and quantitative science but they are not. We are here to change this. If you seek to publish replication research such as reproductions (same data) or replications (different data) with rigorous and transparent quality assurance (open and persistent peer review, reproducibility check) in an open and accessible way, we are here for you.

Due to replication research gaining momentum across fields such as economics, psychology, biostatistics, earth science, humanities, and medicine, new methods to conduct and assess replications are being developed. Currently, researchers work in parallel and thus do double work. Replication Research is a place where expertise from different fields comes together in form of theory papers to shape the gold standard for transdisciplinary replication research.

 
Fields from which Replication Research welcomes submissions (conceptual, qualitative and quantitative):
  • Digital Humanities
  • Educational Sciences
  • Experimental Philosophy
  • Geoscience
  • Linguistics
  • Management Sciences
  • Marketing
  • Medicine
  • Mental health
  • Metascience
  • Neuroimaging
  • Neuroscience
  • Political Science
  • Psychology
  • Qualitative and Quantitative Research Methods

Researcher-led

Replication Research is hosted by the University of Münster and maintained by the Münster Center for Open Science (MüCOS) and the Framework for Open and Reproducible Research Training (FORRT).