Results 1 to 10 of about 19,856,475 (182)
COVID-19 advocacy bias in the BMJ: meta-research evaluation [PDF]
BMJ Open QualityObjectives During the COVID-19 pandemic, BMJ, a leading journal on evidence-based medicine worldwide, published many views by advocates of specific COVID-19 policies.
John P A Ioannidis +3 more
doaj +4 more sources
Meta‐research publications in dentistry: a review [PDF]
European Journal of Oral Sciences, 2021 AbstractThe present scoping review has the objective of providing an overview of meta‐research in dentistry. A search of the PubMed database was performed for the period 11 October 2014 to 10 October 2019. Study selection and data extraction were performed independently by one author; prior to this, a random sample of 10% of the retrieved titles and ...
Clovis M. Faggion +2 more
openaire +5 more sources
Why is it important to implement meta-research in universities and institutes with medical research activities? [PDF]
Front Res Metr AnalIn recent years, there has been a growing concern over questionable practices and a lack of rigor in scientific activities, particularly in health and medical sciences.
Lozada-Martinez ID +5 more
europepmc +2 more sources
Calibrating the Scientific Ecosystem Through Meta-Research
Annual Review of Statistics and Its Application, 2019 While some scientists study insects, molecules, brains, or clouds, other scientists study science itself. Meta-research, or research-on-research, is a burgeoning discipline that investigates efficiency, quality, and bias in the scientific ecosystem, topics that have become especially relevant amid widespread concerns about the credibility of the ...
Tom Elis Hardwicke +6 more
semanticscholar +6 more sources
Meta-research: Why research on research matters
PLOS Biology, 2018 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.
J. Ioannidis
openaire +5 more sources
Journal policies and editors’ opinions on peer review
eLife, 2020 Peer review practices differ substantially between journals and disciplines. This study presents the results of a survey of 322 editors of journals in ecology, economics, medicine, physics and psychology.
Daniel G Hamilton +3 more
doaj +2 more sources
Meta-Research: How problematic citing practices distort science
, 2021 Citing practices constitute a core element in scientific research and communication in which they serve several important functions. They both comprise the principal unit of science’s social reward system and they establish epistemic genealogy, showing the foundations on which claims are built.
Serge P. J. M. Horbach +2 more
openaire +4 more sources
Meta-Research: Broadening the Scope of PLOS Biology
PLOS Biology, 2016 In growing recognition of the importance of how scientific research is designed, performed, communicated, and evaluated, PLOS Biology announces a broadening of its scope to cover meta-research articles.
Stavroula Kousta +2 more
openaire +5 more sources
Meta-Research Evidence for Evaluating Therapies
Philosophy of Science, 2018 AbstractThe new field of meta-research investigates industry bias, publication bias, contradictions between studies, and other trends in medical research. I argue that its findings should be used as meta-evidence for evaluating therapies. ‘Meta-evidence’ is evidence about the support that direct ‘first-order evidence’ provides the hypothesis.
J. Fuller
openaire +2 more sources