Papers are not written for the sake of writing papers. Papers are written for the sake of getting grants. Publishing is a proxy for increasing your chances of g

Papers are not written for the sake of writing papers. Papers are written for the sake of getting grants. Publishing is a proxy for increasing your chances of getting grants. Papers with more citations get bigger grants. The whole publish or perish idea is working at the wrong level; it's really get grants or perish. The reason why no one does replication studies is because no one offers grants to fund replication studies. If you want replication studies, lobby to pay for them at the federal level, because that's where everyone's grants come from. If that money comes available, you'll have as many replications studies as you could dream of.