2025/08/07 by Sheena F. Bartscherer, Martin Reinhart
Decision Sciences · Mathematics · #Biology #Computer science #Library science #Mathematics #Open science #Political science #Replication (statistics) #Scientific Computing and Data Management #Space (punctuation) #Statistics
paper · doi:10.31235/osf.io/rbyt6_v1
openalex publication_date 2025/08/07 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/14
The replicability as well as the reproducibility of research findings has been a central concern for methodological standards in many research fields for several decades. However, the most recent wave – as represented by the Open Science movement – and their efforts to improve and increase replicability and reproducibility in science have since grown to a level that surpasses earlier debates: Concerns are no longer confined to specific fields, but have become cross- and trans-disciplinary, even involving actors from outside the strictly academic sphere, such as commercial academic publishers, business entrepreneurs, private funders, and political stakeholders. In this paper we take a closer look at one of the movement’s core communities, the community forming around replications. By sharing our observations of ‘replication initiatives’ (RIs), and their infrastructures we derive a typology of its most visibly engaged actors, hoping to provide those interested in science reform with a systematic perspective on how to assess the ongoing reform proposals and activities within the Open Science space.