Wilsdon, James;
Brasil, Andre;
Waltman, Ludo;
Steyn, Ben;
(2025)
The past, present and future of UK metascience. (Annex to ‘A Year in Metascience’).
(UK Meta Science Unit
).
UK Government: Department for Science, Innovation and Technology: London, UK.
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Abstract
Metascience has deep roots and many branches. It is currently experiencing a fresh burst of growth, with new shoots appearing in many parts of the global research system. The UK research community has been an important part of metascience’s history and evolution. And thanks to the strategic focus and investment being mobilised by the UK Metascience Unit5 – the first such initiative in the world to operate across central government and the national research funding agency – the UK is now well-positioned to become an influential testbed of metascience analysis, experimentation and innovation. This report was commissioned by the UK Metascience Unit as a contribution to its ongoing analysis and shaping of UK capabilities and priorities in metascience. It is published as an annex to the report ‘A Year in Metascience’, which is being published on 30 June 2025, alongside the Metascience 2025 conference. All statistics presented here are openly available as an interactive web tool for comparison and benchmarking of national systems and frameworks for metascience and related initiatives. See this website for more information: https://public.tableau.com/app/profile/andr.brasil8692/viz/ResearchonResearchLandscape/Stor
| Type: | Report |
|---|---|
| Title: | The past, present and future of UK metascience. (Annex to ‘A Year in Metascience’) |
| Open access status: | An open access version is available from UCL Discovery |
| DOI: | 10.6084/m9.figshare.29210066 |
| Publisher version: | https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/a-year-... |
| Language: | English |
| Additional information: | This information is shared under a Open Government Licence (OGLv3.0). The OGL allows anyone to copy, publish, distribute, transmit and adapt published data. Users can exploit the data for commercial and non-commercial uses as long as they acknowledge the source. https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version |
| Keywords: | metascience, meta-research, science of science, research policy, UK science policy, research funding |
| UCL classification: | UCL UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS > Faculty of Engineering Science > STEaPP |
| URI: | https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10210927 |
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