Science is vital to humanity, but its value is being undermined because much scientific research is not reproducible, rigorous, or relevant. The Association for Interdisciplinary Meta-Research and Open Science or AIMOS was founded in 2019 with a vision of empowering an interdisciplinary scientific community that embraces diversity within the research sector, encourages open and robust research practices, and fosters better research cultures for future generations.
AIMOS seeks to achieve this purpose by promoting improvements in the accessibility, quality and transparency of research, supporting the critical evaluation of research practices, facilitating education and training in open science practices and meta-research; and advancing regional lobby efforts to increase collaboration with and support by governmental organisations.
You can support AIMOS by becoming a member, see our Membership page.
AIMOS 2025 conference - 19-21 November, Sydney
Save the date! Our 7th annual conference will bring together researchers from multiple scientific disciplines to talk about how research is done and how we can do it better. We are excited to partner with the Evidence, Policy, and Influence Collaborative at the University of Sydney to spotlight commercial determinants of health at AIMOS 2025.
This year our plenary speakers are Dr Ivan Oransky, Professor Lisa Bero & Dr Nicholas Chartres.
Introducing MetaROR - an open peer review platform for metaresearch
MetaROR is not a traditional scholarly journal, but a platform that operates according to the publish-review-curate model.
This model will accelerate the communication of scholarly work since peer review will take place after publication rather than before. Peer review will benefit not only the authors of a work but also the readers, who can use the published review reports to assess the research.