"replicable" is a real word and can be used in written English.
It is an adjective that means "able to be replicated or reproduced." For example, "The experiment was designed to be replicable, so others could easily duplicate the results."
It's inevitable that studies won't always be replicable — if every study could be replicated, then every researcher would be right the first time; even legitimate findings can prove fragile when you try to repeat them.
Infidelity is a complex behaviour and while Brendan Zietsch, the lead author of this paper, is confident that genetic effects on behaviour are "virtually universal and highly replicable", he says he is cautious about the findings on AVPR1A, as further studies often fail to replicate the effects of single genes.
But is its approach replicable or is it just an exception?
The first payoff for micro-managers is a self-evident one: identifying a large number of small, replicable units means reaping the benefits of mass production and standardisation of every kind.
Those who can't bike are encouraged to use public transport, which is free downtown.Mr Adams says Portland's success is "totally replicable".
One of his main worries is that Cisco does not have sufficiently replicable processes in place to keep things on track.
The smaller the replicable unit, the greater the opportunity for micromanagers to fine-tune services to customers' needs.
If there is insufficient supply of high quality teachers, the charter school movement will not be replicable.
And its overall success is not easily replicable.
Cities face many of the same challenges, from crippling pension costs to crime to public-health issues, so a major component of the challenge is that the proposed ideas must be replicable.
There is, says the firm, "a clear and replicable method in the apparent madness of the most successful serial acquirers".
