Nobody CAN publish them. An actual criterion for most top journals is literally "novelty". Reviewers will immediately levee "this has been done before" as a dam

Nobody CAN publish them. An actual criterion for most top journals is literally "novelty". Reviewers will immediately levee "this has been done before" as a damning critique in peer review. There is no replication because you can't currently share replications, let alone sustain a career on them.