Research

Metascience to understand current practices, test new approaches, and advance more open, rigorous, and trustworthy research.

Research at the Center for Open Science (COS) helps clarify where lifecycle open science—research with publicly accessible and connected plans, contents, and outcomes—can strengthen research and what approaches are most effective for advancing it.

By studying current research practices and testing new models for how research can be conducted, consumed, and evaluated, this work informs future interventions, products, and services.

Together, these efforts support COS’s broader strategy to demonstrate, improve, and promote pathways for more open and trustworthy research. Through this work, COS both examines how research functions today and explores what new models, policies, and practices could strengthen it in the future.

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Reimagining Research

Early-stage research and development involving innovation and initial evaluation of new approaches to conducting, consuming, and evaluating research. These efforts test new policies, practices, and solutions that could inform future products and services.

Assessing Research Practice

Research on the present state of research practices to identify strengths, weaknesses, and opportunities for intervention and improvement through lifecycle open science. This work helps surface where greater openness, rigor, and transparency may strengthen research.

Metascience Alliance

A collaborative initiative that brings together stakeholders interested in improving research culture and advancing metascience through shared learning, exchange, and coordination.