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The Meta-Research Center at Tilburg University is a
Projet MiRoR
Methods in Research on Research
Centre for Journalology
European Network for Knowledge Impact
Interdisciplinary Meta-Research Group
metascience
Metascience (also known as meta-research) is the use of scientific methodology to study science itself. Metascience seeks to increase the quality of scientific research while reducing inefficiency. It is also known as "''research on research''" ...
research center within the School of Social and Behavioral Sciences at the Dutch Tilburg University. They were profiled in a September 2018 article in Science
Science is a systematic endeavor that builds and organizes knowledge in the form of testable explanations and predictions about the universe.
Science may be as old as the human species, and some of the earliest archeological evidence for ...
.
Research
Meta-research
Metascience (also known as meta-research) is the use of scientific methodology to study science itself. Metascience seeks to increase the quality of scientific research while reducing inefficiency. It is also known as "''research on research''" ...
aims to improve reproducibility
Reproducibility, also known as replicability and repeatability, is a major principle underpinning the scientific method. For the findings of a study to be reproducible means that results obtained by an experiment or an observational study or in a ...
by studying how science is practiced and published and developing better ways for the scientific community to operate.
The research institute has published a large statistical meta-analysis of studies on the effect of Stereotype threat on girls' mathematics performance. They also use methods for estimating publication bias.
The research institute has developed an R based software tool called Statcheck
Statcheck is an R package designed to detect statistical errors in peer-reviewed psychology articles by searching papers for statistical results, redoing the calculations described in each paper, and comparing the two values to see if they match. I ...
that can detect incorrect statistical methods used in research articles. A large amount of statistical errors were detected in a sample of 50 000 psychology research articles. The use of it was perceived negatively by some of the researchers. The data mining practices of the research center have been in conflict with the policies of scientific publisher Elsevier
Elsevier () is a Dutch academic publishing company specializing in scientific, technical, and medical content. Its products include journals such as ''The Lancet'', ''Cell'', the ScienceDirect collection of electronic journals, '' Trends'', th ...
.
A scientific misconduct case in the field of social psychology at Tilburg University has been a contributing factor in establishing the research center.
Advocacy
The research center makes recommendations for other researchers about how to avoid publication bias and to improve the statistical strength of results. They have stated support for pre-registration of studies and open sharing of research data.See also
*Meta-research
Metascience (also known as meta-research) is the use of scientific methodology to study science itself. Metascience seeks to increase the quality of scientific research while reducing inefficiency. It is also known as "''research on research''" ...
* Scientometrics
Scientometrics is the field of study which concerns itself with measuring and analysing scholarly literature. Scientometrics is a sub-field of informetrics. Major research issues include the measurement of the impact of research papers and academi ...
* Addressing the replication crisis
Other meta-research centres
* Cochrane Collaboration *Meta-Research Innovation Center at Stanford The Meta-Research Innovation Center at Stanford (METRICS) is a research center within the Stanford School of Medicine that aims to improve reproducibility by studying how science is practiced and published and developing better ways for the scient ...
(METRICS) (co-directors John Ioannidis
John P. A. Ioannidis (; el, Ιωάννης Ιωαννίδης, ; born August 21, 1965) is a Greek-American physician-scientist, writer and Stanford University professor who has made contributions to evidence-based medicine, epidemiology, and cl ...
and Steven N. Goodman
Steven N. Goodman (born 1954) is an American Professor of Epidemiology and Population Health and of Medicine at the Stanford School of Medicine. He has extensively contributed to foundations of scientific and statistical inference within the bios ...
)
* Center for Open Science (director Brian Nosek
Brian Arthur Nosek is an American social-cognitive psychologist, professor of psychology at the University of Virginia, and the co-founder and director of the Center for Open Science. He also co-founded the Society for the Improvement of Psycholog ...
)
Projet MiRoR
Methods in Research on Research
Centre for Journalology
European Network for Knowledge Impact
Interdisciplinary Meta-Research Group
References
External links
* {{Cite web , title = Meta-Research Center , author = , date = , accessdate = 2017-02-22 , url = http://metaresearch.nl/ , quote = School of Social and Behavioral Sciences Scientific method Tilburg University Metascience-related organizations