The Meta-Research Innovation Center at Stanford (METRICS) is a research center within the
Stanford School of Medicine that aims to improve
reproducibility
Reproducibility, closely related to 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 ...
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 ( ; , ; 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 clinical research. Ioannidis studies sc ...
and
Steven Goodman.
Laura and John Arnold Foundation
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provided the initial founding of the center,
[ which launched in 2014.]The New York Times
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''.
See also
* Cochrane Collaboration
Cochrane is a British international charitable organisation formed to synthesize medical research findings to facilitate evidence-based choices about health interventions involving health professionals, patients and policy makers. It includes ...
* List of metascience research centers and organisations
Association for Interdisciplinary Meta-Research & Open Science(AIMOS)
Brazilian Metascience Research Group (BMRG)Centre for Journalology* Center for Open Science
* Center for Scientific Integrity
* Cochrane Collaboration
European Network for ...
* 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" and ...
* Scientometrics
Scientometrics is a subfield of informetrics that studies quantitative aspects of scholarly literature. Major research issues include the measurement of the impact of research papers and academic journals, the understanding of scientific citati ...
References
External links
* {{official website, metrics.stanford.edu/
Stanford University medicine
Research organizations in the United States
Metascience-related organizations