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Moving into 2026, I have been reflecting on the current state of the world, scientific advances, and a general increase in metascience interest. The motivations discussed in my original post announcing the motivation for Metascience Hub have only grown throughout 2025: AI's impact on science and society, decrease in public trust, and the slow pace of institutional adaptation. The perspective that I hadn't had at that point in time, however, was in the discussions held at th

There is a mental health crisis in academia. In 2018, Teresa Evans et al. reported a significantly higher incidence of anxiety and...

Quantifying the impact of research is a practice used to assess academic journals, researchers, and individual communications. In theory the higher the impact, the more important the work. Citation metrics are often used to assess candidates for academic positions or funding, and therefore researchers use journal-level metrics to decide the journals in which they want to publish their work. This article will dive into the definitions of certain citation metrics and their rele

Metascience Hub is a platform of advice, information, and resources for researchers and research managers. Metascience, the scientific...

In July 2025 the Metascience Alliance will be launched during the 2025 Metascience conference. The goals of this alliance are to unify...

Registered reports are one attempt, amongst many, to take on the challenges of our contemporary research processes, and I think there is...

This year's Metascience Conference is sure to host a wealth of stimulating contributions both assessing and reforming scientific...

Out of curiosity, I used AI to write the first version of this post . In the meta-spirit, I wanted to see how AI would assess the use of...

Artificial Intelligence (AI) is changing the face of scientific research across many fields. From speeding up drug discovery in...