Meta-research

Meta-analyses are essential for cumulative science, but their validity can be compromised by publication bias. In order to mitigate the …

There is an opportunity for sports medicine to progress research ideation using synthetic datasets, maintaining research momentum when …

We describe how podcasts can benefit scientific communities by disseminating career-specific information that is often unwritten and hidden to those outside academic social knowledge networks. We also provide practical advice on how scientists can launch their own podcasts.

Open research data provide considerable scientific, societal, and economic benefits. However, disclosure risks can sometimes limit the …

The neuropeptide oxytocin has attracted substantial research interest for its role in behaviour and cognition; however, the evidence …

Objective: Treatment outcomes for anorexia nervosa (AN) remain modest, and recent research suggests that clinical trials may be of …

Background: To determine the impact of specialized treatments, relative to comparator treatments, upon the weight and psychological …

The effects of intranasal oxytocin on social cognition are mixed, with several non-significant reports casting some doubts on its …

Background: Despite its popularity as an inferential framework, classical null hypothesis significance testing (NHST) has several …

Research impact is assessed partly by how the research has made demonstrable contributions to academia and society at large. Most …

Meta-analysis synthesizes a body of research investigating a common research question. Outcomes from meta-analyses provide a more …

This is a practical workshop on how to perform a meta-analysis, including pre-registration, data-extraction, and analysis.

In this talk, discuss the benefits of pre-registering meta-analysis, and ways to increase the transparency of meta-analyses

This talk describes ‘metameta’, an R package that can effortlessly calculate and visualise the statistical power of studies included in a meta-analysis.

I discuss the benefits of applying open science practices to clinical research, and how you can create openly available data sets that allow others to reproduce your results while maintaining participant privacy via synthetic datasets.

A talk and discussion on why academics should use social media and how they can best use it to boost their careers.

In this talk, I present two remedies for analytical flexibility in meta-analysis: pre-registration and multiverse analysis. Reducing analytical flexibility, in parallel with releasing raw data and analysis scripts, will improve the credibility of meta-analysis.

Open research data provide considerable scientific, societal, and economic benefits. However, disclosure risks can sometimes limit the …