Is economics self‐correcting? Replications in the American Economic Review
这篇论文回顾了2010至2020年间《美国经济评论》上发表的评论性复制研究，发现这些评论很少被引用，且不影响原论文的后续引用，即使评论指出了实质性问题。调查还显示，复制者和原作者对原论文的贡献是否成立常无共识，表明经济学文献未能自我纠正。
Abstract This paper reviews the impact of replications published as comments in the American Economic Review between 2010 and 2020. We examine their citations and influence on the original papers' (OPs) subsequent citations. Our results show that comments are barely cited, and they do not affect the OP's citations—even if the comment diagnoses substantive problems. Furthermore, we conduct an opinion survey among replicators and authors and find that there often is no consensus on whether the OP's contribution sustains. We conclude that the economics literature does not self‐correct, and that robustness and replicability are hard to define in economics.