Publications
Here are a couple of key papers to introduce you to metascience:
Publications from our people
- A Consensus Statement on self-knowledge conceptualization, measurement, outcomes and changeability, I Thielmann, MD Back, W Bleidorn, H Bukowski, EN Carlson, M Dufner, G Hofer, W Hofmann, CJ Hopwood, LJ Human, CH Jordan, JI Krueger, J Langdon, R Rau, LD Smillie, N Strohminger, J Sun, S Vazire, M Burghart, N Casali, A Seidl (2026), Nat Rev Psychol 5, 338–351.
- Investigating the replicability of the social and behavioural sciences, AH Tyner, AL Abatayo, M Daley, S Field, N Fox, NA Haber, KM Hahn, MK Struhl, B Mawhinney, O Miske, P Silverstein, CK Soderberg, T Stankov, A Abbasi, CL Aberson, B Aczel, M Adamkovič, N Albayrak, PJ Allen, M Andreychik, E Awtrey, E Axxe, F Azevedo, MD Bader, B Bago, J Bailey, M Bakker, G Banik, GC Banks, E Baskin, A Batruch, A Beatteay, SM Behr, N Berente, Z Berry, J Białkowski, B Bodroža, L Boeschoten, M Bognar, C Bokhove, D Bonfiglio, R Bouwman, TF Brady, SR Braithwaite, G Briceño Jiménez, C Brick, T Bricka, R Briker, AN Brown, GDA Brown, RCM van Aert, K Caldwell, S Capitan, T Capitán, J Chandler, T Charles, CR Chartier, R Chawdhary, KJ Cheng, WJ Chopik, B Clark, VE Colvin, CC Comer, G Costantini, T Coupé, J Cummins, A Czernatowicz-Kukuczka, J de Leeuw, D Dobolyi, JN Druckman, J Duan, M Dujmović, DJ Dunleavy, PK Durkee, C Emery, KM Esterling, TR Evans, A Fedor, B Fernández-Castilla, N Fiala, JG Field, N Fong, MA Fonseca, ALJ Freeman, J Freese, SJ Geiger, J Geng, LM Getz, LM Geven, IH Gleibs, DP Gonzales, J Gooty, A Gourdon-Kanhukamwe, C Greculescu, SM Griffin, L Grigoryan, M Grunow, N Gunby, B Hall, PHP Hanel (2026), Nature 652, 143–150.
- Measurement-Reporting Practices in Social-and-Personality-Psychology Articles, KM Lawson, JG Bottesini, LD Khong, S Vazire (2026), Advances in Methods and Practices in Psychological Science 9 (1).
- Evaluation of the Replicability of Systematic Reviews with Meta-Analyses of the Effects of Health Interventions, DG Hamilton, JE Mckenzie, PY Nguyen, ML Rethlefsen, S Mcdonald, SE Brennan, FM Fidler, JPT Higgins, R Kanukula, S Karunananthan, LJ Maxwell, D Moher, S Nakagawa, D Nunan, P Tugwell, VA Welch, MJ Page (2026), Research Synthesis Methods.
- Comparing Expert Assessments of Research Quality between the Global North and East Africa, J Singh, F Mody, M Schmidt, S Shari, J Wambua, D Wilkinson, P Forscher (2025), Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London Series B Biological Sciences 380 (1940).
- Same Data, Different Analysts: Variation in Effect Sizes Due to Analytical Decisions in Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, E Gould, HS Fraser, TH Parker, S Nakagawa, SC Griffith, PA Vesk, F Fidler, DG Hamilton, RN Abbey-Lee, JK Abbott, LA Aguirre, C Alcaraz, I Aloni, D Altschul, K Arekar, JW Atkins, J Atkinson, CM Baker, M Barrett, K Bell, SK Bello, I Beltrán, BJ Berauer, MG Bertram, PD Billman, CK Blake, S Blake, L Bliard, A Bonisoli-Alquati, T Bonnet, CNM Bordes, APH Bose, T Botterill-James, MA Boyd, SA Boyle, T Bradfer-Lawrence, J Bradham, JA Brand, MI Brengdahl, M Bulla, L Bussière, E Camerlenghi, SE Campbell, LLF Campos, A Caravaggi, P Cardoso, CJW Carroll, TA Catanach, X Chen, HYJ Chik, ES Choy, AP Christie, A Chuang, AJ Chunco, BL Clark, A Contina, GA Covernton, MP Cox, KA Cressman, M Crotti, CD Crouch, PB D’Amelio, AA de Sousa, TF Döbert, R Dobler, AJ Dobson, TS Doherty, SM Drobniak, AG Duffy, AB Duncan, RP Dunn, J Dunning, T Dutta, L Eberhart-Hertel, JA Elmore, MM Elsherif, HM English, DC Ensminger, UR Ernst, SM Ferguson, E Fernandez-Juricic, T Ferreira-Arruda, J Fieberg, EA Finch, EA Fiorenza, DN Fisher, A Fontaine, W Forstmeier, Y Fourcade, GS Frank, CA Freund, E Fuentes-Lillo, SL Gandy, DG Gannon, AI García-Cervigón, AC Garretson, X Ge, WL Geary, C Géron, M Gilles, Megan Kate Good, Tanner J Howard (2025), BMC Biology 23 (1).
- The Influence of Public Policy and Administration Expertise on Policy: An Empirical Study, R Haunschild, K Williams, L Bornmann (2025), Evidence and Policy 21 (4).
- Enhancing the Quality and Reproducibility of Research: Preferred Evaluation of Cognitive and Neuropsychological Studies - The PECANS Statement for Human Studies, C Costa, R Pezzetta, E Toffalini, M Grassi, G Cona, C Miniussi, PJ Bauer, S Borgomaneri, M Brysbaert, CD Chambers, N Edelstyn, A Eerland, SJ Gilbert, MA Nitsche, RA Poldrack, A Puce, KR Ridderinkhof, TY Swaab, C Umiltà, M Wiener, C Scarpazza, C Zogmaister, L Zapparoli, JM Zacks, N Yamamoto, SP Woods, ME Wokke, M Wiseheart, CE Wierenga, S Weigelt, EM Wassermann, E Viding, S Vazire, C Vázquez, D Van Ravenzwaaij, AE Van’t Veer, A Vallesi, M Ullsperger, LQ Uddin, EW Twamley, LL Toussaint, M Tops, L Toffoli, CK Thompson, EC Tecwyn, BA Tabak, D Szucs, JS Snyder, AS Souza, JC Snow, J Simner, AJ Shackman, M Scandola, LD Scherer, M Schepisi, W Schaeken, VM Reid, M Pyasik, A Protopapas, G Porciello, G Ponsi, AP Pinheiro, BS Peterson, L Però, MS Panasiti, S Oosterwijk, K Oberauer, M Montefinese, S Migliore, V Miskovic, L Menghini, G Melis, RD McIntosh, RJ McCarthy, JB Mattingley, F Masina, D Mantini, I Mangiulli, CR Madan, T Lanciano, D Lakens, VAF Lamme, C Lamm, S Kiran, P Kanske, L Jobson, RJ Itier, Y Huang, SA Huettel, MW Howe, D Houston, AR Hariri, A Guida, A Giustiniani, GM Gaskell, G Fusco, M Fusaro, GR Fink, T Feraco, V Era (2025), Behavior Research Methods 57 (7).
- Public Opinion and China’s Strategic Communication: Responses to Coercion and Persuasion, GAM Davies, K Edney, K Williams (2025), Foreign Policy Analysis 21 (3).
- Explicit Value Trade-Offs in Conservation: Integrating Animal Welfare, KE Lynch, BL Allen, O Berger-Tal, F Fidler, GE Garrard, JO Hampton, CH Lean, KM Parris, SL Sherwen, TE White, BBM Wong, DT Blumstein (2025), Trends in Ecology and Evolution 40 (6).
- Why Should You Trust Research Published in Psychological Science?, S Vazire (2025), Psychological Science 36 (5).
- Sports Metaresearch: An Emerging Discipline of Sport Science and Medicine, J Warmenhoven, P Menaspà, DN Borg, S Vazire, N White, K Sainani, S Nimphius, AJ Coutts, FM Impellizzeri (2025), Sports Medicine 55 (4).
- Predicting the Replicability of Social and Behavioural Science Claims in COVID-19 Preprints, A Marcoci, DP Wilkinson, A Vercammen, BC Wintle, AL Abatayo, E Baskin, H Berkman, EM Buchanan, S Capitán, T Capitán, G Chan, KJG Cheng, T Coupé, S Dryhurst, J Duan, JE Edlund, TM Errington, A Fedor, F Fidler, JG Field, N Fox, H Fraser, ALJ Freeman, A Hanea, F Holzmeister, S Hong, R Huggins, N Huntington-Klein, M Johannesson, AM Jones, H Kapoor, J Kerr, M Kline Struhl, M Kołczyńska, Y Liu, Z Loomas, B Luis, E Méndez, O Miske, F Mody, C Nast, BA Nosek, E Simon Parsons, T Pfeiffer, WR Reed, J Roozenbeek, AR Schlyfestone, CR Schneider, A Soh, Z Song, A Tagat, M Tutor, AH Tyner, K Urbanska, S van der Linden (2025), Nature Human Behaviour 9 (2).
- Are Women Really (Not) More Talkative Than Men? A Registered Report of Binary Gender Similarities/Differences in Daily Word Use, CA Tidwell, AF Danvers, VA Pfeifer, DB Abel, E Alisic, A Beer, SJ Bierstetel, KL Bollich-Ziegler, M Bruni, WR Calabrese, C Chiarello, B Demiray, S Dimidjian, KL Fingerman, M Haas, DM Kaplan, YK Kim, G Knezevic, LB Lazarevic, M Luo, A Macbeth, JH Manson, JS Mascaro, C Metcalf, KS Minor, S Moseley, AJ Polsinelli, CL Raison, JK Rilling, ML Robbins, D Sbarra, RB Slatcher, J Sun, M Vasileva, S Vazire, MR Mehl (2025), Journal of Personality and Social Psychology 128 (2).
- Repertoires of Research Value: Performing Societal Impact across Countries, K Williams, S Michalska (2025), Research Evaluation 34.
- Snapshots in a Time of Crisis: Trends in Psychology Research Practices Throughout the Replication Crisis, BM Clarke (2025), Edited by S Vazire and T Hardwicke.
- How Do Psychology Journals Handle Postpublication Critique? A Cross-Sectional Study of Policy and Practice, A Whamond, S Vazire, B Clarke, N Moodie, S Schiavone, RT Thibault, TE Hardwicke (2025), Advances in Methods and Practices in Psychological Science 8 (3).
- Context Is Everything: National Variation in Societal Impact Assessment, K Williams, JM Lewis (2025), Higher Education.
- The Benefits of Being between (Many) Fields: Mapping the High-Dimensional Space of AI Research, G Berman, K Williams, E Cohen (2025), Big Data & Society 12 (1).
- Cancer Researchers’ Experiences with and Perceptions of Research Data Sharing: Results of a Cross-Sectional Survey, DG Hamilton, MJ Page, S Everitt, H Fraser, F Fidler (2025), Accountability in Research 32 (4).
- The Cultural Impact of the Impact Agenda in Australia, UK and USA, E Cohen, K Williams, J Grant (2025), Research Evaluation 34.
- What do Australians affected by cancer think about oncology researchers sharing research data? A cross‐sectional survey, DG Hamilton, S Everitt, MJ Page, F Fidler (2024), Asia‐Pacific Journal of Clinical Oncology 20 (4), 522-530.
- Computationally reproducing results from meta-analyses in ecology and evolutionary biology using shared code and data, S Kambouris, DP Wilkinson, ET Smith, F Fidler (2024), Plos one 19 (3), e0300333.
- Attitudes of people living with cancer towards trial non-publication and research participation, DG Hamilton, S Everitt, MJ Page, S Vazire, F Fidler, (2024), BMJ Evidence-Based Medicine 29 (1), 64-66.
- An empirical appraisal of eLife’s assessment vocabulary, TE Hardwicke, SR Schiavone, B Clarke, S Vazire, (2024) Plos Biology 22 (8), e3002645.
- Transparency Is Now the Default at Psychological Science, TE Hardwicke, S Vazire, (2024) Psychological Science 35 (7), 708-711.
- Looking our limitations in the eye: A call for more thorough and honest reporting of study limitations, Clarke, B., Alley, L. J., Ghai, S., Flake, J. K., Rohrer, J. M., Simmons, J. P., Schiavone, S. R., & Vazire, S. (2024), Social and Personality Psychology Compass, e12979.
- The prevalence of direct replication articles in top-ranking psychology journals. Clarke, B., Lee, P. Y. (K.), Schiavone, S. R., Rhemtulla, M., & Vazire, S. (2024), American Psychologist. Advance online publication.
- Construct validity evidence reporting practices for the Reading the Mind in the Eyes Test: A systematic scoping review. Higgins, W. C., Kaplan, D. M., Deschrijver, E., & Ross, R. M. (2024). Clinical Psychology Review, 108, Article 102378.
- Why most research based on the Reading the Mind in the Eyes Test is unsubstantiated and uninterpretable: A response to Murphy and Hall Higgins, W. C., Kaplan, D. M., Deschrijver, E., & Ross, R. M. (2024). Clinical Psychology Review, 115, Article 102530.
- What limitations are reported in short articles in social and personality psychology, Clarke, B., Schiavone, S., & Vazire, S, (2023), Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 125(4), 874–901.
- Three threats to the validity of the Reading the Mind in the Eyes Test: A commentary on. Neuroscience and Biobehavioral Reviews, Higgins, W. C., Ross, R. M., Polito, V., & Kaplan, D. M. (2023).147, Article 105088.
- Validation of the reading the mind in the eyes test requires an interpretable factor model. Higgins, W. C., Savalei, V., Polito, V., & Ross, R. M. (2023). Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences - PNAS, 120(52), e2303706120–e2303706120.
RepliCATS-related publications
- Systematizing Confidence in Open Research and Evidence (SCORE), SCORE Collaboration, (2024).
- Predicting reliability through structured expert elicitation with repliCATS (Collaborative Assessments for Trustworthy Science), Fraser et al., (2023).
- AggreCAT: An R Package for Mathematically Aggregating Expert Judgments, Gould et al., (2023).
- Mathematically aggregating experts’ predictions of possible futures, Hanea et al., (2023).
- Eliciting group judgements about replicability: a technical implementation of the IDEA Protocol, Pearson et al., (2021).
- Predicting and reasoning about replicability using structured groups, Wintle et al., (2023).
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