Abstract The past fewdecades havewitnessed rapid growth in research centered on the period of adolescence. Several markers of that growth are now obvious, such as multidisci-plinary journals dedicated to thatdevelopmental period. But, it remains tobedetermined, like other fields of research that often contribute to the understanding of adolescence (genetics, cog-nitive science, medicine), whether multi-disciplinary develop-mental research on adolescence systematically evaluates the integrity of its findings. This study explores the extent towhich the leading ‘‘adolescent’’ journals evaluate the state of knowl-edge that they disseminate, the importance of such evaluations, and challenges to the discipline’s scientific integrity. The review reveals that developmental journals devoted to the adolescent period pervasively do not publish articles that focus on reviews of research; it also finds that the most dominant formsof reviewsare thosedeemed less rigorous.Thediscussion focuses on these findings’ implications and underscores the legitimacy and importance of doing what more established disciplines recognize as important and do more routinely. Keywords Adolescence Literature reviews Replication Reviews