Metascience is gaining momentum across sectors and regions, with new initiatives, investments, and collaborations emerging to improve research systems. As this movement grows, the Metascience Alliance is forming as a coalition and hub for alignment and collaboration—connecting stakeholders, coordinating shared priorities, and accelerating collective progress.

The Metascience Alliance brings together researchers, funders, institutions, publishers, policymakers, infrastructure providers, entrepreneurs, and others working to strengthen how science is conducted, evaluated, and communicated. Rather than acting as a central authority, the Alliance supports shared priorities, amplifies existing work, and creates space for collaborative reform and innovation.

The Metascience Alliance is currently in its formative phase, with a two-year pilot catalyzed and operationally supported by the Center for Open Science (COS). During this phase, we are working with partners to co-create the structure, priorities, and activities of the Alliance.

Together, we aim to:

• Build community through convenings, networking events, and resources that support onboarding and connection across disciplines and sectors
• Strengthen the workforce by supporting new career pathways, offering cross-sector training, and launching programs for postdocs and early-stage innovators
• Enable matchmaking by connecting researchers, funders, infrastructure providers, and others to co-develop questions, design projects, and catalyze collaboration
• Amplify and align efforts across the field to reduce duplication, surface shared goals, and encourage collective experimentation