Founding Team
The People Behind REP-COM
Five communication scientists whose careers are built around rigorous, open, and replicable science.
The Global Initiative for Replication in Communication Science (REP-COM) is a community of scholars dedicated to the systematic replication of key empirical findings in communication research — across labs, countries, and cultures.
Communication science shapes real-world campaigns, policy, and public understanding. Its findings must be robust.
Many landmark communication studies are based on small samples with underpowered designs. Major findings shaping real-world campaigns have never been independently verified.
We run and endorse small scale, large-scale, preregistered, direct, and many-lab replication studies — An overall goal is to recruit labs across countries to test whether key effects hold across populations, cultures, and contexts.
All REP-COM projects are preregistered, open-access, and archived on OSF. Regardless of outcome, every replication is published — null results included.
Communication science shapes how we understand media effects, health campaigns, privacy behavior, and social influence. Yet a surprisingly large share of its foundational studies have never been replicated. Most were tested in a single country, with a single population, in a single moment in time.
REP-COM was founded by a group of scholars committed to systematically, rigorously, and collaboratively replicate communication studies. We build international consortia spanning dozens of labs across Europe, the Americas, Africa, Asia, and Oceania, aim to secure funding, and coordinate replication designs that test whether communication effects hold not just in one place, but across the cultural and linguistic contexts in which our field's claims are meant to apply.
Meet the Founding TeamFive communication scientists whose careers are built around rigorous, open, and replicable science.