> If a prerequisite of publication in a top tier journal was someone having replicated the work… anyone at all… then the quality of write up would improve drama

> If a prerequisite of publication in a top tier journal was someone having replicated the work… anyone at all… then the quality of write up would improve dramatically I would expect pairs of labs to gang up, with one of them giving the other the details so that they can reproduce the result, and the contents of the publication staying more or less the same. Reason is that everybody wants to prevent others from being able to build on one’s work faster than one can do themselves. Even if the lab you give more information isn’t run by a buddy of you, having a single competitor is better than having the whole world compete with you. For example, in this case, people will start cooking all kinds of variations on this stuff to find one that’s easier to produce, allows for higher currents before losing superconductivity, doesn’t have lead in it, etc.