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A platform for open peer review of metaresearch
RoRI and the Association for Interdisciplinary Meta-Research and Open Science (AIMOS) have launched a new platform for review and scholarly communication called MetaROR (MetaResearch Open Review).
A platform designed to transform how we review and share metaresearch
Research on research, or meta research, is changing fast. In the past five years, researchers from a diverse range of disciplines have contributed to such efforts, and new communities of scholarship and practice have emerged. It is exciting to see fresh energy and methodological innovation being directed to these agendas. But this can also bring challenges, particularly in how research outcomes are communicated and evaluated.
These problems are far from unique to our fields. But metaresearch has a particular responsibility to develop and test innovative solutions. To this end, RoRI and the Association for Interdisciplinary Meta-Research and Open Science (AIMOS) have launched a new platform for review and scholarly communication called MetaROR (MetaResearch Open Review).
Within RoRI’s portfolio, MetaROR sits within our broader strand of work on Peer Review, as a practical experiment and testbed for some of the ideas being explored in that project. The MetaROR platform operates based on the following ideas:
MetaROR is owned by the academic community of researchers doing research on science, technology and knowledge making. We work together with one or more technology providers, but they do not own the platform. Instead, we envision MetaROR to be community-owned.
Stephen Pinfield, Senior Research Fellow, RoRI and University of Sheffield
Ludo Waltman, Senior Research Fellow, RoRI and CWTS-Leiden
André Brasil, Research Fellow, RoRI and CWTS-Leiden
James Wilsdon, Executive Director, RoRI and UCL
Wolfgang Kaltenbrunner, Senior Research Fellow, RoRI and CWTS-Leiden
Plus colleagues from the Association for Interdisciplinary Meta-Research and Open Science (AIMOS)
MetaROR is a joint initiative of AIMOS and RoRI. To build MetaROR into a community-driven collaboration that reflects the rich and growing diversity of metaresearch, we hope to further expand its project and editorial team. We invite anyone interested in contributing to MetaROR’s development and implementation to reach out to us.
The MetaROR steering group includes the following RoRI partners:
MetaROR was launched in November 2024, and will initially run as an experimental pilot for two years.