> High prestige journals often will not accept replication studies.
But this is the opposite of how it should be! If we learned anything from scientific research is that if a breakthrough study is published, it means almost nothing until it gets verified. Actually, these days I tend to believe meta-analyses almost exclusively. But you need time for these to appear.
So when I read about some exciting new study, my first reaction is, "Well, that's interesting, we'll see what other scientists say." So actually we should look forward to the first replication as the first indicator of whether the original study was correct or not. The authors of the original study and the journal board should be grateful to the replication team for helping them do their job! Rejecting replication is a disservice to science.
But this is the opposite of how it should be! If we learned anything from scientific research is that if a breakthrough study is published, it means almost nothing until it gets verified. Actually, these days I tend to believe meta-analyses almost exclusively. But you need time for these to appear.
So when I read about some exciting new study, my first reaction is, "Well, that's interesting, we'll see what other scientists say." So actually we should look forward to the first replication as the first indicator of whether the original study was correct or not. The authors of the original study and the journal board should be grateful to the replication team for helping them do their job! Rejecting replication is a disservice to science.