Teams & Units
Team Meta-Research and Automated Screening
The former research group "Meta-Research and Automated Screening" examines ways to improve data visualization, reporting of detailed methods and protocols, statistical analyses, and other factors that affect the rigor, reproducibility and transparency of biomedical research.
Findings from meta-research studies allow the development of targeted interventions to make research more trustworthy and useful. The team also develops automated screening tools to detect beneficial practices, or common problems, in preprints and papers. These automated tools allow the monitoring of changing practices over time across many fields, and the assessment of the impact of interventions designed to improve rigor, reproducibility and transparency. Real-time screening initiatives share reports from screening tools with preprint authors, allowing scientists to improve their manuscripts before publication. Finally, team members deliver "hands on" educational programs to train the next generation of scientists.
Since October 2024, Tracey Weissgerber is an Invited Coordinating Researcher and Team Leader for the EXCELScIOR project ERA Chair at the Center for Neuroscience and Cell Biology (CNC-UC) & Center for Innovative Biomedicine and Biotechnology (CIBB), University of Coimbra, Portugal. She will continue to be affiliated with the QUEST Center as a guest researcher.
Please see below for details on current projects.
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