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Metaresearch report
An auto-generated reading of the corpus through a metaresearch-science lens. It responds to the filters on the left — narrow by year, field, language, or institution to re-frame every finding below.
Publication trends
Outputs per year
Metaresearch outputs over time (filtered).
Open access share over time
Percentage of each year's outputs that are open access (filtered).
Citations per output over time
Mean citations per output by year; recent years are lower as citations accrue over time (filtered).
Institutions
Top institutions
Canadian institutions producing the most metaresearch (filtered).
Collaboration network
Institutional co-authorship network
Co-authorship ties between institutions. Node size = output; edge thickness = shared works. Canadian International
Collaboration map
Geographic collaboration
Where collaborating institutions are. Markers = institutions (size = output); lines = co-authorship ties. Canadian International
Topics & fields
Top topics
Primary OpenAlex topics within the (filtered) corpus.
Outputs & open access
Output types
Languages
Open vs. closed
Share of the (filtered) corpus that is openly accessible.
Open access status
How outputs are made open (gold, green, diamond, hybrid, bronze, closed).
Search string & validation
Inspect and independently verify the exact OpenAlex query used to build this corpus. Nothing is hidden: copy the query, run it on OpenAlex, compare the live count, and spot-check a random sample for relevance.
OpenAlex query
Query components
Sensitivity: definitions of “Canadian”
“Canadian” can be defined several defensible ways. Holding the metaresearch subject filter constant, this shows how many works qualify under each. The rest of the dashboard uses the primary definition (any author at a Canadian institution); the others are reported side by side for transparency.
Use “Canadian authorship” in the filters to switch every chart and the network between the primary definition and the lead-author view. Planned for corpus v2: a share-of-Canadian-authors view.
Live verification
Re-run the query against OpenAlex right now and compare the live result count with the snapshot shipped in this dashboard. Small differences are expected as OpenAlex is continuously updated.
Relevance spot-check
Fetch a fresh random sample of works returned by this exact query, straight from OpenAlex, and judge for yourself whether they are genuinely Canadian metaresearch.
Community validation
The boundary of this corpus was set with the people who do metaresearch.
What the reviewers said
Share of the 36 reviewers who agreed with each part of the definition.
What changed because of it
Now in this dashboard
- Research data management added as a sixth topic (team round)
- “Canadian authorship” switch in the filters: any author or lead author
- Classroom academic integrity and applied reviews coded out
- This page: the votes, the dissent and the blind spots, in the open
Committed for corpus v2
- Topics for research methods and statistical practice, the gap reviewers named most, tested against seed papers with a librarian
- A test for a science-policy and funding topic
- Revised definition wording, so theoretical and modelling metaresearch is not excluded
- A share-of-Canadian-authors view
- Replication studies count when they make claims about a population of findings
Known blind spots
- Editorials and conceptual papers without a metaresearch tag
- French-language and multilingual work
- Indigenous research governance
- Evaluations of research-reform programmes
Reviewers answered as individuals. Most came from ecology and evolution (SORTEE) and psychology (SIPS); clinical, library and French-language communities were thin, and that is a limit of this validation.
About & methods
Corpus filter (OpenAlex):
Pilot mock-up demonstrating the dashboard stack. The corpus definition (concepts/keywords, "Canadian" criteria) is intentionally simple and will be refined per docs/METHODOLOGY.md. All charts, the network, and the CSV export update with the filters on the left. Data & documentation: CC BY-NC 4.0 · Code: PolyForm Noncommercial 1.0.0 (free for non-commercial use).