Commercial Determinants of Replication Infeasibility in Computational Social Science

Computational social science has expanded the capacity of scientists to study connected human behavior at previously unprecedented scales. Yet from its beginning, scientists expressed concern that its reliance on private companies might produce a body of work that cannot be critiqued or replicated. Such commercial determinants of science have been observed in other fields including public health where science has implications for corporate liability. In this meta-scientific report, we analyze th