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I am surprised it's just half. The incentives are not there for replication or verification. You need to publish and it is easier to publish something new than to fight over existing results, especially if you're a young researcher.

I maintain something akin to google trends but for abstracts in economics papers. The word "novel" is growing rapidly, while "reproduce", "replicate", and "verify" have not changed much over the years: https://dubovik.eu/blog/repec?t=replicate&t=reproduce&t=veri...