{"entity":{"id":"idea-tr2-tenure-replication-credit","kind":"idea","name":"Count replications and open data in hiring and promotion","aka":[],"tldr":"Scientists are promoted for first-time discoveries and journal prestige, not for replicating others' work or sharing data. A structured section in tenure and promotion dossiers for replications conducted, data and code shared, and registered reports, weighted explicitly in decisions, would change what scientists spend their time on.","summary":"Career incentives drive the reproducibility problem: novelty and journal prestige are rewarded, replication and data sharing are not. Institutions signing DORA have pledged to reduce reliance on journal metrics. A concrete step is a structured section in tenure and promotion dossiers for replication studies conducted, data and code shared, registered reports and independent verification of one's own findings, weighted explicitly in decisions.","asOf":"2026-09-08","links":[{"label":"DORA","url":"https://sfdora.org/"}],"tags":[],"related":["idea-tr2-replication-set-aside"],"cancers":[],"sections":[],"technologies":[],"targets":[],"drugs":[],"companies":[],"institutions":[],"pathways":[],"terms":[],"trials":[],"people":[],"bottlenecks":["b-reproducibility","b-incentive-misalignment"],"keyPapers":[],"journals":[],"dependsOn":[],"notes":[],"hypothesis":"Institutions adopting the credit will see a doubling of replication studies and data deposits by their faculty within five years relative to matched institutions.","rationale":"Behaviour follows incentives; the shift to open data in genomics followed funder and institutional requirements, not exhortation.","test":"Five cancer centres adopt the dossier section; track faculty replication and sharing outputs against matched centres.","maturity":"speculative","actor":"policy","cost":"small","horizonYears":5},"route":"/ideas/idea-tr2-tenure-replication-credit/","neighbours":{"idea":[{"id":"idea-tr2-replication-set-aside","kind":"idea","name":"Funders set aside a fixed share of budget for independent replication","route":"/ideas/idea-tr2-replication-set-aside/"}],"bottleneck":[{"id":"b-incentive-misalignment","kind":"bottleneck","name":"Incentives reward me-too drugs and marginal gains","route":"/bottlenecks/b-incentive-misalignment/"},{"id":"b-reproducibility","kind":"bottleneck","name":"Preclinical results do not reproduce","route":"/bottlenecks/b-reproducibility/"}]}}