The answer to this question? Predictably “Umm no” and good luck finding anyone with the time to be a peer reviewer
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Retraction Watch: During what periods in history did peer reviewers repeat experiments? And how common was the practice?
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Noah Moxham: Not tremendously! It was quite common at the Royal Academy of Sciences (after the 1789 Revolution, the Institut de France) in Paris from about the mid-eighteenth century. It was mostly used to evaluate the work of outsiders — meaning, non-Academy members. There were also exercises in systematic replication between the Royal Society of London and the Oxford Philosophical Society in the early 1680s, when magnetic experiments and chemical analysis of minerals would be carried out in one location and details of the experiment (together with the raw material, where necessary) were sent to be tried at the other. But it’s difficult to call that peer review because it wasn’t explicitly tied to any kind of publishing or gatekeeping protocol.
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Dear Peer Reviewer: Could you also replicate the experiments? Thanks – Retraction Watch (Dalmeet Singh Chawla | January 2017)
Posted by saviorteam in Research Integrity on March 3, 2017
Keywords: Analysis, News, Peer review, Research integrity, Research results
Keywords: Analysis, News, Peer review, Research integrity, Research results
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