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Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Ioannidis, John P A

Titel

Meta-research: Why research on research matters

Ist Teil von

• PLoS biology, 2018-03, Vol.16 (3), p.e2005468-e2005468

Ort / Verlag

United States: Public Library of Science

Erscheinungsjahr

2018

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Beschreibungen/Notizen

• Meta-research is the study of research itself: its methods, reporting, reproducibility, evaluation, and incentives. Given that science is the key driver of human progress, improving the efficiency of scientific investigation and yielding more credible and more useful research results can translate to major benefits. The research enterprise grows very fast. Both new opportunities for knowledge and innovation and new threats to validity and scientific integrity emerge. Old biases abound, and new ones continuously appear as novel disciplines emerge with different standards and challenges. Meta-research uses an interdisciplinary approach to study, promote, and defend robust science. Major disruptions are likely to happen in the way we pursue scientific investigation, and it is important to ensure that these disruptions are evidence based.