Science’s moral economy of repair: Replication and the circulation of reference

Document Type

Syllabus

Publication Date

2-17-2020

Abstract

Responding to the so-called reproducibility crisis, various disciplines have proposed–and some have implemented–changes in research practices and policies. These changes have been aligned with a restricted and rather uniform conceptualization of what science is, and knowledge is made. However, knowledge-making is not a uniform affair. Here, we reflect on a salient fault line running through Wissenschaft (the whole of academic knowledge making, spanning the sciences and humanities), grounded in the relationship between the acts of research and writing, separating research as reporting from research as writing. We do so to demonstrate that replication and replicability cannot be treated as uniformly applicable and that assessment and improvement of research quality invites various tools and strategies. Among those, replication is important, but not omnipresent. Considering these other tools and strategies in context allows us to situate the value of replication for knowledge making as a whole.

Identifier

85078495831 (Scopus)

Publication Title

Accountability in Research

External Full Text Location

https://doi.org/10.1080/08989621.2020.1720659

e-ISSN

15455815

ISSN

08989621

PubMed ID

31986907

First Page

107

Last Page

113

Issue

2

Volume

27

Grant

445001005

Fund Ref

ZonMw

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