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Making replication prestigious

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  27 July 2018

Krzysztof J. Gorgolewski
Affiliation:
Department of Psychology, Stanford University, Stanford, CA 94305. krzysztof.gorgolewski@gmail.comrusspold@stanford.eduhttp://blog.chrisgorgolewski.org/http://www.russpoldrack.org/
Thomas Nichols
Affiliation:
Oxford Big Data Institute, Li Ka Shing Centre for Health Information and Discovery, Nuffield Department of Population Health, University of Oxford, Headington, Oxford OX3 7FZ, United Kingdom. Welcome Centre for Integrative Neuroimaging, FMRIB, Nuffield Department of Clinical Neurosciences, University of OxfordOX3 7FZ, United Kingdom. Department of Statistics, University of Warwick, Coventry CV4 7AL, United Kingdom. thomas.nichols@bdi.ox.ac.ukhttps://warwick.ac.uk/fac/sci/statistics/staff/academic-research/nichols
David N. Kennedy
Affiliation:
Department of Psychiatry, University of Massachusetts Medical School, Worcester, MA 01655. david.kennedy@umassmed.edu
Jean-Baptiste Poline
Affiliation:
Montreal Neurological Institute, McGill University, Montréal, QC H3A 2B4, Canada. jbpoline@gmail.com Helen Wills Neuroscience Institute, University of California, Berkeley, CA 94720.
Russell A. Poldrack
Affiliation:
Department of Psychology, Stanford University, Stanford, CA 94305. krzysztof.gorgolewski@gmail.comrusspold@stanford.eduhttp://blog.chrisgorgolewski.org/http://www.russpoldrack.org/

Abstract

Making replication studies widely conducted and published requires new incentives. Academic awards can provide such incentives by highlighting the best and most important replications. The Organization for Human Brain Mapping (OHBM) has led such efforts by recently introducing the OHBM Replication Award. Other communities can adopt this approach to promote replications and reduce career cost for researchers performing them.

Type
Open Peer Commentary
Copyright
Copyright © Cambridge University Press 2018 

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