Submissions
Replication Research is a publication platform for replications and replications from various disciplines. Articles need to disclose what original study and hypothesis/claim they replicated or reproduced. For an up-to-date overview of the disciplines from which we accept submissions, please see the editorial board. Generally, we can provide adequate quality assurance and peer-review for cognitive, behavioral, and social science studies (psychology, economics, sociology, education sciences, political sciences).
Please note that the entire review process is open and reviews will be permanently linked with submitted manuscripts via their DOIs and Pubpeer.com regardless whether the article is accepted or rejected. This is so that quality assurance is transparent, and so that work provided by reviewers for Replication Research is credited and not discarded.
Submission Preparation Checklist
Pre-print uploaded to repository and assigned a DOI
Preregistration link accessible and included in manuscript
Preregistration deviations disclosed and discussed
Open Data, Materials, and Code accessible and linked in the manuscript
Instructions for push-button-replications provided and linked in the manuscript
Article Types
All articles submitted to Replication Research need to investigate a research question that has been previously investigated in a published study. These can be computational reproductions using the same data and code, robustness checks using the same data but different procedures, close replications using new data and the same method, or conceptual replications using new data and a different method. Replication closeness needs to be described in detail.
Replications (different data)
Replication studies can be internal (i.e., by the same group of researchers), close, or conceptual (for a typology see Hüffmeier et al., 2016). Authors can use their own format or a standardized template provided by Replication Research. This Standardized Replication Template (StaRT) is available online at https://osf.io/3jgxd.
Upon acceptance, we expect authors to enter their replication study in to the FORRT Replication Database (if it is not included yet).
Reproductions (same data)
For reproductions (i.e., studies where no new data is collected), we recommend the use of the Institute4Replication’s template available via this OSF Project. We do not accept reproductions with overlapping authorship.
Multiverse Analyses and Many Analyst Studies
There are many paths from raw data to results. Approaches that aim to wander most or all of them are called multiverse analyses, approaches to have many people choose their preferred path are called Multi Analys Studies. Both contain information about the robustness or generalizability and are thus an integral part of repetitive research.
Multi-study articles
For multi-study articles, a mix of replications and reproductions is possible. If possible, authors should conduct a mini meta-analysis. Authors need to disclose for each study whether it is a replication or reproduction. A mix of original studies and replication is not possible.
Student Reports
Articles whose first authors are enrolled at a university at the time of submission can be submitted as Student Report. Submissions need to include a certificate of enrollment at a university for the first author. None of the other authors need to be students. Supervisors do not need to be included as authors but need to be mentioned in the manuscript. Review for student reports is aimed to be faster (two weeks deadline for one review instead of four weeks for two independent reviews). Quality standards are as high as non-student reports with the exception that low-powered replications may be accepted if they discuss the limitations and provide useful new information such as reproduced materials or analysis plans that are not clear from original reports. Reviews are still open and articles need to adhere to submission guidelines and TOP guidelines. Please note that students can also submit their articles as non-student reports.
Registered Reports
Replication Research accepts registered reports for studies where new data is collected. More information on registered repots is available in the template guide provided by the OSF.
Badges
For articles meeting the requirements listed in the Author Guidelines, we assign the following badges (images provided by OSF):
Contributions and References
These guidelines are shared under a CC 4.0 by Attribution License and have been created by Lukas Röseler (Writing - first draft) and XXX (CRediT). They are loosely based on the submission guidelines from Meta Psychology (https://open.lnu.se/index.php/metapsychology/about/submissions).