Meta-research: Why research on research matters

Meta-assessment of bias in science

(2017) Daniele Fanelli et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

The geotemporal demographics of academic journals from 1950 to 2013 according to Ulrich’s database

(2017) Yuandi Wang et al.   Journal of Informetrics

The Mass Production of Redundant, Misleading, and Conflicted Systematic Reviews and Meta-analyses

(2016) JOHN P.A. IOANNIDIS   MILBANK QUARTERLY

1,500 scientists lift the lid on reproducibility

(2016) Monya Baker   NATURE

The Global Burden of Journal Peer Review in the Biomedical Literature: Strong Imbalance in the Collective Enterprise

(2016) Michail Kovanis et al.   PLoS One

Reproducible Research Practices and Transparency across the Biomedical Literature

(2016) Shareen A. Iqbal et al.   PLOS BIOLOGY

Methods for estimating the size of Google Scholar

(2015) Enrique Orduna-Malea et al.   SCIENTOMETRICS

Meta-research: Evaluation and Improvement of Research Methods and Practices

(2015) John P. A. Ioannidis et al.   PLOS BIOLOGY

On the time spent preparing grant proposals: an observational study of Australian researchers

(2013) Danielle L Herbert et al.   BMJ Open

Are Medical Conferences Useful? And for Whom?

(2012) John P. A. Ioannidis   JAMA-JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN MEDICAL ASSOCIATION

Design and Update of a Classification System: The UCSD Map of Science

(2012) Katy Börner et al.   PLoS One

Science mapping analysis characterizes 235 biases in biomedical research

(2010) David Chavalarias et al.   JOURNAL OF CLINICAL EPIDEMIOLOGY

How Many Scientists Fabricate and Falsify Research? A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis of Survey Data

(2009) Daniele Fanelli   PLoS One