“Non-Replicable Publications Are Cited More Than Replicable Ones”, 2021 (; backlinks):
We use publicly available data to show that:
published papers in top psychology, economics, and general interest journals that fail to replicate are cited more than those that replicate. This difference in citation does not change after the publication of the failure to replicate. Only 12% of post-replication citations of non-replicable findings acknowledge the replication failure.
Existing evidence also shows that experts predict well which papers will be replicated. Given this prediction, why are non-replicable papers accepted for publication in the first place? A possible answer is that the review team faces a trade-off. When the results are more “interesting”, they apply lower standards regarding their reproducibility.