Abstract
The replication of existing knowledge (e.g. previous study results) stands as an important research practice across all disciplines of science. Despite the importance of replication, the scarcity of replication studies is commonly criticized in business, management and Information System (IS) research. Therefore, to facilitate replication research in the IS community, efforts have already been made, such as establishing conference tracks and journals primarily focusing on publishing replication studies, and providing guidelines of how and why to conduct out replication research. Nonetheless, the perception of replication research remains unchanged, describing it as mundane. In this paper, we address this perception by asking how other research disciplines achieved and maintained a stronger culture of replication. To be specific, we analyzed replication studies from the field of neuroscience and elicited to potentially novel replication study types: transfer and method validation. We argue that both study types hold the potential to be more interesting to conduct and increase the appeal of replication research.
Recommended Citation
Greulich, R. Stefan and Brendel, Alfred Benedikt, "Towards a Greater Appeal of Replication Research by Learning from the Field of Neuroscience" (2019). AMCIS 2019 Proceedings. 6.
https://aisel.aisnet.org/amcis2019/meta_research_is/meta_research_is/6
Towards a Greater Appeal of Replication Research by Learning from the Field of Neuroscience
The replication of existing knowledge (e.g. previous study results) stands as an important research practice across all disciplines of science. Despite the importance of replication, the scarcity of replication studies is commonly criticized in business, management and Information System (IS) research. Therefore, to facilitate replication research in the IS community, efforts have already been made, such as establishing conference tracks and journals primarily focusing on publishing replication studies, and providing guidelines of how and why to conduct out replication research. Nonetheless, the perception of replication research remains unchanged, describing it as mundane. In this paper, we address this perception by asking how other research disciplines achieved and maintained a stronger culture of replication. To be specific, we analyzed replication studies from the field of neuroscience and elicited to potentially novel replication study types: transfer and method validation. We argue that both study types hold the potential to be more interesting to conduct and increase the appeal of replication research.