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Browse these topics and more from the [Metascience 2023 Conference](https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLChfyH8TVDGlPTcKrVboBaf6QAGSJt1hQ&si=T3P8fE6q6t-IewwK).       ## Discover ### See registrations, preprints, materials, and more from metaresearchers around the world. ![metascience-logo](https://www.cos.io/hubfs/metascience-logo.png) #### Metascience Registry The Metascience registry aggregates the open and rigorous research taking place within the field of metascience. Submit your own registration or discover existing studies. [![Visit the registry](https://no-cache.hubspot.com/cta/default/6723653/479c5be5-419b-43ca-a3d3-10b8cd063e63.png)](https://cta-redirect.hubspot.com/cta/redirect/6723653/479c5be5-419b-43ca-a3d3-10b8cd063e63) ![MetaArXiv_logo_square copy](https://www.cos.io/hubfs/MetaArXiv_logo_square%20copy.png) #### MetaArXiv Preprints View an interdisciplinary archive of articles focused on improving research transparency and reproducibility. Submit your own preprint to accelerate discovery of research outcomes. [![View preprints](https://no-cache.hubspot.com/cta/default/6723653/3e9f885f-2b52-4399-b7dc-696925581e3c.png)](https://cta-redirect.hubspot.com/cta/redirect/6723653/3e9f885f-2b52-4399-b7dc-696925581e3c) ![metascience-logo](https://www.cos.io/hubfs/metascience-logo.png) #### Metascience Research Collection View metascience projects, data, materials, protocols, code, and more from across [OSF](http://osf.io). Or submit your own research to the collection to improve discoverability and reuse. [![Visit the collection](https://no-cache.hubspot.com/cta/default/6723653/b504f6a6-d4af-4e05-a819-0c876858b170.png)](https://cta-redirect.hubspot.com/cta/redirect/6723653/b504f6a6-d4af-4e05-a819-0c876858b170) ## **Learn** ### Browse metaresearch best practices by visiting the [Framework for Open and Reproducible Research Training (FORRT)](https://forrt.org/) to access lesson plans, lecture notes, textbooks, readings, and data sets. [![Screenshot of FORRT homepage](https://www.cos.io/hs-fs/hubfs/forrt%20lapot.png?width=800&height=477&name=forrt%20lapot.png)](https://forrt.org/)   ## For Funders ### How can funders advance open scholarship, replication, changing incentives, and grow the field of metascience? View conversations from the 2020 [Metascience Funders Forum](https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLChfyH8TVDGnqSxQanhrn3C_e3HAMxuyI). ## COS Metascience and Research ### COS conducts research on research practices to understand areas of inefficiency, and to evaluate interventions to improve. See more of our studies [here](https://www.cos.io/services/research?hsLang=en). #### Replication Project: Cancer Biology RP:CB is a collaboration between COS and [Science Exchange](https://www.scienceexchange.com/) to conduct direct replications of 50 high-impact cancer biology studies. [Learn more](https://www.cos.io/rpcb?hsLang=en). #### SCORE: Systematizing Confidence in Open Research and Evidence A project in partnership with Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) to advance understanding about how to assess and predict replicability of social-behavioral science findings. [Learn more](https://www.cos.io/score?hsLang=en). #### Evaluating Registered Reports A study investigating whether Registered Reports produced greater rigor and quality compared to the traditional publishing model. [Read the paper](https://osf.io/preprints/metaarxiv/7x9vy). ## Theoretical Perspectives #### Preregistration - [The preregistration revolution](https://www.pnas.org/content/115/11/2600) #### Advancing Science - [Scientific Utopia: I. Opening Scientific Communication](https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/1047840X.2012.692215) - [Scientific Utopia: II. Restructuring Incentives and Practices to Promote Truth Over Publishability](https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/1745691612459058) - [Scientific Utopia III: Crowdsourcing Science](https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/1745691619850561) #### Replication - [What is replication?](https://journals.plos.org/plosbiology/article?id=10.1371/journal.pbio.3000691) - [The best time to argue about what a replication means? Before you do it](https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-020-02142-6) #### Learn more about the emerging field of metascience, innovations, and events at [metascience.com](http://metascience.com). 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