INTERNATIONAL REGISTER OF
META-RESEARCH (IRMR)
The international register of Meta-Research (IRMR) is a free, open access database of prospectively registered meta-research studies in healthcare.
Meta-research has been defined as the study of research itself including research methods, reporting, reproducibility, evaluation and incentives. As research on research, meta-research uses scientific methods to explore how research is done and interpreted, with the goal of verifying the validity of research techniques and improving the reliability of conclusions.(1)
1. Ioannidis JPA. Meta-research: Why research on research matters. PLoS Biol. 2018 Mar13;16(3):e2005468. doi:10.1371/journal.pbio.2005468