What is meta-research? Dr. Roland Roberts

Dr. Roland Roberts, a Senior Editor who handles most meta-research papers for PLOS Biology, provides an overview of the various types of meta-research papers that his journal receives and the methods used in these papers.
You can examine the PLOS Biology and PLOS One meta-research collection here: collections.pl...
Links to some of the papers that Dr. Roberts mentioned appear below.
The gender gap in science: How long until women are equally represented? journals.plos....
The manifold costs of being a non-native English speaker in science: journals.plos....
Large scale investigations of the reasons why potentially important genes are ignored: journals.plos....
Public human microbiome data are dominated by highly developed countries: journals.plos....
Reproducibility of preclinical animal research improves with the heterogeneity of study samples: journals.plos....
Statistical simulations show that scientists need not increase overall sample size by default when including both sexes in in vivo studies: journals.plos....
Educating the future generation of researchers: A cross-disciplinary survey of trends in analysis methods: journals.plos....
Relationship between journal impact factor and the thoroughness and helpfulness of peer reviews: journals.plos....
What’s not in the news headlines or titles of Alzheimer disease articles? #InMice: journals.plos....
Quantifying and contextualizing the impact of bioRxiv preprints through automated social media audience segmentation: journals.plos....
Contest models highlight inherent inefficiencies of scientific funding competitions: journals.plos....
Relative Citation Ratio (RCR): A New Metric That Uses Citation Rates to Measure Influence at the Article Level: journals.plos....
Creating clear and informative image-based figures for scientific publications: journals.plos....
Blind spots on western blots: Assessment of common problems in western blot figures and methods reporting with recommendations to improve them: journals.plos....