Re-analyses and robustness checks are one way of verifying and commenting on studies. Subjecting studies to collaborative scrutiny raises the reliability of research. However, many journals hesitate to publish replications. Creating a repository to host replications that are already being done, but not shared, is a step in the right direction.

We would also like to see journals publishing replications. Authors can post to the repository and still later submit their replication to journals. Thus, our site operates much in the same way that ArXiv, NBER and SSRN do. We host replications for pre-publication discussion and usage, and complement rather than compete with journals.