PhD candidate in Quantitative Psychology and Neuroscience at the University of Connecticut. Forensic meta-science and statistical methods for meta-analysis.
Meta-Analysis Error Reports
This site compiles forensic reports of errors found in meta-analyses. To submit your own error report, contact me (Matthew B. Jané) at matthewbjane@gmail.com.
Metapsy | Meta-Analytic Psychotherapy Databases
Metapsy is a university-based research project. It provides access to meta-analytic databases of clinical trials on the effect of psychological interventions on mental disorders or mental health problems.
99% impossible: A valid, or falsifiable, internal meta-analysis.
Metaventory — the meta-science community
A comprehensive community of the people building meta-science and the tools they make — psychology and economics first, growing science-wide.
Meta Research News | Meta Research
At Meta, research permeates everything we do. We believe the most interesting research questions are derived from real world problems.
Meta-Research Symposium, 2026
Register for NYU's second annual Meta-Research Symposium, “Meta-Research in Action: Implementing Better Science"
A Statistical Interrogation of “The Case for Causality, Part 1” by Rausch and Haidt – Matthew B. Jané
I don’t know anything about the literature on social media and mental health so my focus on this post is to interrogate the statistical approach taken by the article written by Zach Rausch and Jonathon Haidt (link here) and to some extent the original meta-analysis by Ferguson.
Individual Experience vs. The Cochrane Review
On my decade-long exploration seeking a scientific language for singular evidence.
Metaudits
Audits of how completely research is described in DataCite, Crossref, ORCID, OpenAlex and repositories. In English, Spanish and German.
Metascience Since 2012: A Personal History
This essay is a personal history of the $60+ million I allocated to metascience starting in 2012 while working for the Arnold Foundation (now Arnold Ventures).
Andrew Porter (@retropz.bsky.social)
Research Integrity and Training Adviser at the Cancer Research UK Manchester Institute Interested in improving #ResearchIntegrity & #ResearchCulture with training, #TeamScience & promoting #OpenResearch https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3353-7002
So...my undergrad thesis student is doing a quality analysis of studies found in meta-analyses. She identified a few and we contacted the authors to request their effect sizes and other variables for the studies in their papers. Here's what happened: scientiapsychiatrica.com/index.php/SciPsy/article/view…
The Impact of Social Media on Adolescent Mental Health: A Meta-Analysis | Scientia Psychiatrica
scientiapsychiatrica.comIn February 2024, I wrote Scientific Reports about a published meta-analysis claiming that mindfulness interventions affect neural plasticity, 'cementing the neuropsychological basis of mindfulness-based interventions'. The paper was retracted yesterday—here a little summary of the process.🧵
Research tools 🔬
Interesting tools that assist with the research process.
Paperclip
Ronen Tamari (@ronentk.me)
Crossmark - Crossref
Crossmark - Crossref
Plaudit · Open endorsements from the academic community
Introducing the Elicit API - Elicit
