NYU Health Sciences Library, NYU Grossman School of Medicine, New York, NY, United States of America.
Department of Population Health, NYU Grossman School of Medicine, New York, NY, United States of America.
PLoS One. 2024 May 20;19(5):e0303905. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0303905. eCollection 2024.
Meta-research in which researchers are the study subjects can illuminate how to better support researchers and enhance the development of research capacity. Comprehensively compiling the literature in this area can help define best practices for research capacity development and reveal gaps in the literature. However, there are challenges to assessing and synthesizing the breadth of the meta-research literature produced.
In this article, we discuss the current barriers to conducting literature reviews on meta-research and strategies to address these barriers. We then outline proposed methods for conducting a scoping review on meta-research with researchers as study subjects.
Due to its interdisciplinary nature, broad scope, and difficult to pinpoint terminology, little is known about the state of meta-research with researchers as the study subjects. For this reason, there is a need for a scoping review that will identify research performed in which researchers were the study subjects.
以研究人员为研究对象的元研究可以阐明如何更好地支持研究人员并增强研究能力的发展。全面编纂该领域的文献有助于确定研究能力发展的最佳实践，并揭示文献中的差距。然而，评估和综合元研究文献的广度存在挑战。
在本文中，我们讨论了对元研究进行文献综述的当前障碍以及解决这些障碍的策略。然后，我们概述了对以研究人员为研究对象的元研究进行范围综述的拟议方法。
由于其跨学科性质、广泛的范围和难以确定的术语，对于以研究人员为研究对象的元研究的状况知之甚少。因此，需要进行范围综述，以确定以研究人员为研究对象进行的研究。
