I guess if you found reproducibility problems in a bunch of related papers, that would point to a common cause. In fact, I found a case like this in my dissertation: the entire literature on meritocratic promotion in China is unreliable, and is based on a highly-cited 2005 article.
I guess if you found reproducibility problems in a bunch of related papers, that would point to a common cause. In fact, I found a case like this in my dissertation: the entire literature on meritocratic promotion in China is unreliable, and is based on a highly-cited 2005 article.