Flutterby™! : Non-replicable studies cited more

Research findings that are probably wrong cited far more than robust ones, study finds

The study in Science Advances is the latest to highlight the “replication crisis” where results, mostly in social science and medicine, fail to hold up when other researchers try to repeat experiments. Following an influential paper in 2005 titled Why most published research findings are false, three major projects have found replication rates as low as 39% in psychology journals, 61% in economics journals, and 62% in social science studies published in the Nature and Science, two of the most prestigious journals in the world.

Nonreplicable publications are cited more than replicable ones Marta Serra-Garcia and Uri Gneezy DOI: 10.1126/sciadv.abd1705