I bet that most of them would replicate flawlessly. Boring lab techniques and protein structure dominate the list, nothing fancy or outlandish. Interestingly, the famous papers like relativity, expansion of the universe, the discovery of DNA etc. don’t rank anywhere near the top 100. There is also a math paper on fuzzy sets among the top 100. Now that’s a paper that definitely replicates!
This is a list of the top 100 most cited scientific papers. Reading all of them would be a fun exercise.
How many of them do replicate? :D
I bet that most of them would replicate flawlessly. Boring lab techniques and protein structure dominate the list, nothing fancy or outlandish. Interestingly, the famous papers like relativity, expansion of the universe, the discovery of DNA etc. don’t rank anywhere near the top 100. There is also a math paper on fuzzy sets among the top 100. Now that’s a paper that definitely replicates!
That link didn’t work for me somehow but I managed to find the spreadsheet with the 100 articles: https://www.nature.com/news/polopoly_fs/7.21247!/file/WebofSciencetop100.xlsx