Annals of the American Association of Geographers ( IF 3.982 ) Pub Date : 2020-10-13 , DOI: 10.1080/24694452.2020.1806024 Daniel Sui 1 , Peter Kedron 2
This article situates the current discussion of reproducibility and replicability taking place across the sciences within geographers’ enduring discussion of nomothetic and idiographic approaches, best exemplified by the Hartshorne–Schaefer debate. Although the Hartshorne–Schaefer debate retrospectively set the stage for the development of geography from the 1950s to the present, it is surprising that direct discussions of reproducibility and replicability remain mostly absent from the geographic literature. Drawing from recent literature on reproducibility and replicability in the humanities and physical, social, and computational sciences, it is argued that a deeper focus on these issues will have varied impacts on the discipline. Adopting and improving reproducible practices in geographic research reliant on scientific methods will align geographic research with mainstream scientific inquiry. The discipline’s ever-growing diversity of theoretical perspectives and problem domains also makes it likely that a significant portion of geographic research, like many other fields in science, might not be affected by the issues and concerns of reproducibility and replicability. Moving forward, geographic research might continue to benefit from a pluralist framework that embraces both the nomothetic and idiographic approaches, particularly in a broader research environment increasingly defined by disciplinary synthesis and convergence.
中文翻译:
在有争议的地理同一性背景下的再现性和可复制性
这篇文章将当前发生在跨学科的可重复性和可复制性讨论置于地理学家对规范和具体方法的持久讨论中,最好的例证是 Hartshorne-Schaefer 辩论。尽管 Hartshorne-Schaefer 辩论回顾性地为 1950 年代至今的地理学发展奠定了基础,但令人惊讶的是,地理学文献中几乎没有直接讨论可重复性和可复制性。从最近关于人文科学、物理、社会和计算科学的可重复性和可复制性的文献中,有人认为,更深入地关注这些问题将对学科产生不同的影响。在依赖科学方法的地理研究中采用和改进可重复的实践将使地理研究与主流科学探究保持一致。该学科不断增长的理论观点和问题领域的多样性也使得地理研究的很大一部分,就像科学中的许多其他领域一样,可能不会受到可重复性和可复制性问题和关注的影响。展望未来,地理研究可能会继续受益于包含规范和具体方法的多元框架,尤其是在越来越由学科综合和融合定义的更广泛的研究环境中。该学科不断增长的理论观点和问题领域的多样性也使得地理研究的很大一部分,就像科学中的许多其他领域一样,可能不会受到可重复性和可复制性问题和关注的影响。展望未来,地理研究可能会继续受益于包含规范和具体方法的多元框架,特别是在越来越由学科综合和融合定义的更广泛的研究环境中。该学科不断增长的理论观点和问题领域的多样性也使得地理研究的很大一部分,就像科学中的许多其他领域一样,可能不会受到可重复性和可复制性问题和关注的影响。展望未来,地理研究可能会继续受益于包含规范和具体方法的多元框架,尤其是在越来越由学科综合和融合定义的更广泛的研究环境中。