Mapping the Narrow Reproducibility Discourse

Abstract

We constructed citation maps of eight canonical articles in the reproducibility discourse of the reform movement in science to explore how this discourse travels through the research landscape. The map indicates that this discourse largely remains within the confines of the biomedical and social sciences where they originated. This suggests that research policies and assessment guidelines that are based on this discourse might be inappropriate or inapplicable for other disciplines making any universal guidelines and policies problematic and carrying with it the danger of epistemic injustice. Therefore, we recommend further investigations into whether and how reproducibility is talked about locally within different and diverse fields across the research landscape.