The Metascience Alliance was launched on July 2 in London to improve science through scientific methods. With over 25 members, including funders and academic groups, the initiative reflects a growing recognition of metascience. The Metascience 2025 Conference attracted over 830 participants, indicating the sector's critical mass. As AI and budget constraints reshape research, metascientists are urged to conduct studies that address these challenges while benefiting society. Metascience has gained traction since the 2010s, driven by concerns over reproducibility and integrity in research, broadening its scope to include various areas such as peer review and open science.
The Metascience Alliance is a coalition of more than 25 funders, academic groups, companies and other institutions that pursue metascience: the use of scientific methods to understand and improve science itself.
Metascience is coming of age at a time when research is experiencing phenomenal change: artificial intelligence (AI) is transforming science rapidly; research budgets are being squeezed in many places; and science is being politicized and attacked.
By the 2010s, metascience was booming, in part because of growing awareness of problems with reproducibility and research integrity, which has led to calls for reform to how science is conducted, assessed and published.
Metascience has essentially become a broad umbrella that includes investigations of peer review, reproducibility, research evaluation, research impact, open science and citation analysis.
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