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Assessing Research Using Error Carry Forward

March 10, 2026 Publishing

Error carry forward is a marking scheme for multistep, complex mathematics questions, where the dependency from previous steps makes binary...

What will the paper of the future look like?

March 5, 2026 Research

by Luna Fazio An anecdote In the course of my research, I will occasionally indulge in a session of academic...

The Vanishing Role of Critique in the American Economic Review

February 23, 2026 Publishing

Florian Neubauer and Jörg Ankel-Peters Where Have All the Comments Gone? The figure below has been with us for several...

Replication Games in secure environments: Replicating research with Dutch Administrative Data

February 23, 2026 Replication Games

Intro Throughout the month of February 2026, 19 replicators are participating in a new edition of the Replication Games in...

A Researcher’s Guide to Replication Packages: Episode 3

February 16, 2026 Publishing

Episode 3: The Return of the Code Hooray, your paper has been accepted! As you are putting together the replication...

I4R in 2025: A Year of Growth, Games, AI, and New Frontiers in Research Credibility

January 1, 2026 News

As 2025 wraps up, we’re thrilled to share a snapshot of the Institute for Replication’s most meaningful milestones, from major...

Where Papers Go Before (and After) the Journal of Human Resources: Or Why a Desk-Rejection is not a Bad Signal

December 16, 2025 Publishing

Economists like to think of peer review as a gatekeeper of quality. It’s a slow, sometimes painful, but ultimately necessary...

Don’t Panic: A Researcher’s Guide to Replication Packages

December 8, 2025 Publishing

Episode 1: A New README Who Needs a README? Imagine coming across a really cool paper in a top journal....

The Reproducibility Gap in Tropical Disease Research

December 1, 2025 Publishing

Tropical diseases remain one of the biggest global health challenges of our time. They hit low- and middle-income countries hardest,...

🧠 The AI Replication Engine: Automating Research Verification

November 25, 2025 News

Bringing Transparency and Trust to Empirical Research At the Institute for Replication (I4R), we’re developing the AI Replication Engine —...

I4R Research Fellows

November 4, 2025 News

The Institute for Replication (I4R) is pleased to open applications for our Research Fellows! Research fellows will have their name...

Summarizing Derek’s Too-Fast, Too-Fun European Replication Games

October 31, 2025 Uncategorized

Many thanks to the local organizers for their tremendous help. We hope to see you at events in the future!...

The Australian & New Zealand Replication Tour

October 30, 2025 Replication Games

Call it a homecoming. Australia it's where I learned to think like a researcher and to doubt like a scientist....

Global Development & Research Initiative Foundation (GDRI) Investigation

April 11, 2025 I4R Publication

After being alerted about possible misconduct, the I4R started reproducing published papers that use data from a specific NGO (GDRI). The investigation started November 2024. As of April 11, 2025 we have reproduced 10 studies linked to GDRI.

Open Philanthropy – AI

October 16, 2024 Funding

We are thrilled to report that we secured additional funding from Open Philanthropy for our project ‘Benchmarking LLM agents on real-world tasks: Reproducibility’ (174,112 USD).

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