About MetaROR
About MetaROR
A platform for open review of metaresearch
A platform for open review of metaresearch
Metaresearch, or research on research, is developing rapidly. Researchers from a diverse range of disciplines are contributing to this, resulting in the emergence of new communities of scholarship and practice. It is exciting to see fresh energy being directed to innovative metaresearch agendas. However, metaresearch also faces major challenges, particularly in how research outcomes are communicated and evaluated.
Siloed organisation
Interaction between different metaresearch communities (e.g., higher education studies, history of science, philosophy of science, science and technology studies, science of science, scientometrics) is limited.
Limited openness in research practices
Most metaresearch studies are shared only in their final state, typically as an article published in a journal. The adoption of preprinting, open peer review, data sharing, and other open science practices is low in many metaresearch communities.
Limited accessibility of our literature
In many cases, readers need to pay to read the metaresearch literature, or authors need to pay to contribute to the literature. Those who are unable to pay do not have full access to the literature.
Pressure on peer review
Like in many other fields, peer review in the field of metaresearch is under intense pressure, delaying the communication of research outcomes and making it challenging to organise reliable processes for evaluating research results.
Lack of community ownership
Many metaresearch journals are (co-)owned by commercial publishers, constraining the freedom that metaresearch communities have to decide for themselves how to organise their publication and peer review practices.
Siloed organisation
Interaction between different metaresearch communities (e.g., higher education studies, history of science, philosophy of science, science and technology studies, science of science, scientometrics) is limited.
Limited openness in research practices
Most metaresearch studies are shared only in their final state, typically as an article published in a journal. The adoption of preprinting, open peer review, data sharing, and other open science practices is low in many metaresearch communities.
Limited accessibility of our literature
In many cases, readers need to pay to read the metaresearch literature, or authors need to pay to contribute to the literature. Those who are unable to pay do not have full access to the literature.
Pressure on peer review
Like in many other fields, peer review in the field of metaresearch is under intense pressure, delaying the communication of research outcomes and making it challenging to organise reliable processes for evaluating research results.
Lack of community ownership
Many metaresearch journals are (co-)owned by commercial publishers, constraining the freedom that metaresearch communities have to decide for themselves how to organise their publication and peer review practices.
The above problems are far from unique to the field of metaresearch. However, metaresearch has a special responsibility to develop and test innovative solutions to address these problems. To this end, the Research on Research Institute (RoRI) and the Association for Interdisciplinary Meta-Research and Open Science (AIMOS) have set up MetaROR (MetaResearch Open Review), a platform for open peer review of metaresearch.
The above problems are far from unique to the field of metaresearch. However, metaresearch has a special responsibility to develop and test innovative solutions to address these problems. To this end, the Research on Research Institute (RoRI) and the Association for Interdisciplinary Meta-Research and Open Science (AIMOS) have set up MetaROR (MetaResearch Open Review), a platform for open peer review of metaresearch.
MetaROR’s publish-review-curate approach
Below we offer a visual summary of the publish-review-curate approach taken by MetaROR.
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