Metascience as a Scientific Social Movement

The “reproducibility crisis” has been one of the most significant stories in science past 15 years and led to policy changes across research landscape. Yet, scandals, irreproducible studies, cries crisis have occurred for decades science. This article seeks explain why reproducibility taken root become a force ways previous crises not. In short, we argue that it was through scientific, institutional, cultural efforts group scientific activists are calling metascientists. Metascience is social movement use quantification experimentation diagnose problems practice improve efficiency. It draws together data scientists, experimental statistical methodologists, open into project with both intellectual dimensions. Metascientists remarkably successful at winning grants, motivating news coverage, changing policies agencies, journals, universities. lens useful understanding popularization impact narrative suggests institutions adapting meet political technological