Abstract
In 2005, John P. A. Ioannidis, a professor of medicine at Stanford University, opened a can of worms. In a paper published in PLOS Medicine, he argued that most published scholarly literature is false (DOI: 10.1371/journal.pmed.0020124). To date, Ioannidis’s study has attracted thousands of citations and helped solidify a whole field in its own right, says Jelte Wicherts, who studies research methodology at Tilburg University. The use of scientific methodology to study how science is conducted is called metascience. The discipline has become mainstream in recent years, tackling some of the thorniest problems science faces, including a lack of reproducibility of academic literature, biases in peer review, and unfair allocation of research funding. “Metascience is now a distinct species,” although it has ancestors in medical science, psychology, and other disciplines, Wicherts says. Ioannidis, who launched the Meta-Research Innovation Center at Stanford (METRICS) in 2014, is hesitant to frame metaresearch as
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