In the legal field we have a term, Shepardizing, which means to check through the Shepard's index to make sure that the law is still good law. Make sure the law hasn't been overturned, expounded on, or differentiated from whatever case we are looking at.
Now it would make sense that scientists have to do something similar. In any research, if you find an article making a scientific claim, you want to make sure that claim hasn't been disproved by later studies, or if it somehow hasn't been differentiated from the research you are doing, or maybe even clarified in a later study. But without writing that whole process out, is there a phrase or term that describes that process of exploration of the validity of a scientific claim in an article?
Now it would make sense that scientists have to do something similar. In any research, if you find an article making a scientific claim, you want to make sure that claim hasn't been disproved by later studies, or if it somehow hasn't been differentiated from the research you are doing, or maybe even clarified in a later study. But without writing that whole process out, is there a phrase or term that describes that process of exploration of the validity of a scientific claim in an article?