Everything about Metascience
Scientific study of science
Metascience, also known as science of science, is the systematic study of science itself. It analyzes the practices, structures, and outcomes of scientific research, including research design, peer review, publication bias, replication, and incentive structures, with the aim of improving the reliability, transparency, and impact of scientific knowledge production. Emerging at the intersection of the philosophy of science, the sociology of science, scientometrics, and research methodology, it draws on empirical and quantitative approaches to evaluate how science is conducted, communicated, and assessed. Wikipedia →
🧭 Start here: a 6-step reading path
- Read the overview: MetascienceA 5-minute orientation
- Skim a recent paper: Culturally fluent theories, metascience, and scientific progress: A case example: Commentary on Macnamara and Burgoyne (2023) and Burnette et al. (2023).Influential work since 2022
- Pick up a classic book: Metaanalysis of psychoanalysisThe most-reprinted book on the subject
- Read the landmark paper: Metascience could rescue the ‘replication crisis’Cited 176 times
- Go sideways: John IoannidisA closely related topic
- Go sideways: Publication biasA closely related topic
📖 Definitions
Noun The science of science: the use of scientific methodology to study science itself, with the goal of improving the quality and efficiency of research.
🗂️ The subject at a glance
🏆 Landmark papers (most cited)
Metascience could rescue the ‘replication crisis’
Metascience as a Scientific Social Movement
Contemporary Schools of Metascience
Metascience Is Not Enough – A Plea for Psychological Humanities in the Wake of the Replication Crisis
Questionable Metascience Practices
Towards a metascience of information: Informatology
Metascience on Peer Review: Testing the Effects of a Study’s Originality and Statistical Significance in a Field Experiment
New foundations for metascience
🆕 Influential since 2022
Culturally fluent theories, metascience, and scientific progress: A case example: Commentary on Macnamara and Burgoyne (2023) and Burnette et al. (2023).
Metascience can improve science — but it must be useful to society, too
Qualitative Metascience: A Framework for Cultivating Healthier and More Translationally Impactful Neuroscience-Neuroethics Research Ecosystems
Cognitive Metascience: A New Approach to the Study of Theories
What is critical metascience and why is it important?
📚 Books worth reading
Metaanalysis of psychoanalysisDr. Andrej Poleev · 2016
Manifest of a New timeDr. Andrej Poleev · 2017
Form and InformalityDr. Andrej Poleev · 2006
Strange case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde describing disordered relationship between science and the mass society.Dr. Andrej Poleev, Robert Louis Stevenson · 2005
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🔗 Related topics
- John Ioannidis John P. A. Ioannidis (/ˌiːəˈniːdɪs/ EE-ə-NEE-diss; Greek: Ιωάννης Ιωαννίδης, pronounced [i.oˈanis i.oaˈniðis]; born 21 August 1965) is a Greek-American…
- Publication bias In published academic research, publication bias occurs when the outcome of an experiment or research study biases the decision to publish or otherwise…
- Replication crisis The replication crisis, also known as the reproducibility crisis or replicability crisis, is a widespread phenomenon in which published scientific results…
- Why Most Published Research Findings Are False English Wikisource has the full text of "Why Most Published Research Findings Are False": Why Most Published Research Findings Are False "Why Most Published…
- Metatheory A metatheory or meta-theory is a theory whose subject matter is another theory. Analyses or descriptions of an existing theory would be considered meta-theories…
- Scholarly peer review Scholarly peer review or academic peer review (also known as refereeing) is the process of having a researcher's methods and findings reviewed (usually…
- Meta-Research Center at Tilburg University The Meta-Research Center at Tilburg University is a metascience research center within the School of Social and Behavioral Sciences at the Dutch Tilburg…
- Meta-analysis Meta-analysis is a method of synthesis of quantitative data from multiple independent studies addressing a common research question. An important part…