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 scientific community to operate.
It is headed by
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 Goodman.
provided the initial founding of the center,
[ which launched in 2014.]The New York Times
''The New York Times'' (''the Times'', ''NYT'', or the Gray Lady) is a daily newspaper based in New York City with a worldwide readership reported in 2020 to comprise a declining 840,000 paid print subscribers, and a growing 6 million paid d ...
''.
See also
* Cochrane Collaboration
Cochrane (previously known as the Cochrane Collaboration) is a British international charitable organisation formed to organise medical research findings to facilitate evidence-based choices about health interventions involving health profess ...
* 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
References
External links
* {{official website, metrics.stanford.edu/
Stanford University medicine
Research organizations in the United States
Metascience-related organizations