Auditing the value of empirical audits.
Lynch, John G.; Fernbach, Philip M.; Kan, Christina. Auditing the value of empirical audits. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America. 6/27/2023, Vol. 120 Issue 26, p1-1.
Exact replication is impossible (1), but various approaches to “direct” and “conceptual” replication have been developed, including papers with multiple replications of a single study (2), large-scale efforts across multiple laboratories (3), and adversarial collaborations (4). Uniting these approaches is a set of best practices to ensure that published replications get the science right.