Is science healthy? How do rigor and reproducibility vary across fields, journals, and institutions?
At The Metascience Observatory, we are using AI to analyze scientific papers at scale to help answer these questions.
About
The Metascience Observatory has three major projects:
Replications Database
The world's largest collection information on replication experiments, spanning all of science, enabling research on how reproducibility varies across fields. Read more →
Forensic Metascience Agent
An AI agent equipped with 30+ tools for detecting statistical inconsistencies and data-integrity anomalies in scientific papers. Read more →
Bird's Eye Reviews
A new form of AI-powered high-level literature review where results are displayed in an interactive dashboard with filtering options. Read more →
Team
Dan Elton, Ph.D.- Founder and Director
Dan spent 15 years in academic research before founding The Metascience Observatory. He has co-authored about 50 peer-reviewed papers in physics, materials science, and AI for healthcare. On his Substack he writes about AI, progress, metascience, and other topics.
Greg Fitzgerald- meta-analysis and statistics expert
Greg Fitzgerald is a behavioral neuroscientist with expertise in meta-analysis and evidence synthesis. He obtained his Ph.D. in Neuroscience from the State University of New York, Albany. His website is greg-fitzgerald.com.
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The Metascience Observatory is fiscally sponsored by Mind First Foundation, a 501(c)(3) nonprofit, so your donation is tax-deductible.
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