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ReviewSports medicine (Auckland, N.Z.)2025

Sports Metaresearch: An Emerging Discipline of Sport Science and Medicine.

John Warmenhoven, Paolo Menaspà, David N Borg, Simine Vazire, Nicole White, Kristin Sainani, Sophia Nimphius, Aaron J Coutts, Franco M Impellizzeri

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Review in Sports medicine (Auckland, N.Z.), 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 1 paper.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

1 citing paper in PubMed.

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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

9 authors.

John WarmenhovenSchool of Sport, Exercise and Rehabilitation, Faculty of Health & University of Technology Sydney (UTS), Human Performance Research Centre, University of Technology Sydney (UTS), Moore Park, NSW, Australia. john.warmenhoven@hotmail.com.ORCID 0000-0002-8594-6481
Paolo MenaspàAustralian Sports Commission, Australian Institute of Sport, Bruce, ACT, Australia.
David N BorgSchool of Exercise Nutrition Sciences, Queensland University of Technology, Brisbane, QLD, Australia.
Simine VazireMelbourne School of Psychological Sciences, University of Melbourne, Parkville, VIC, Australia.
Nicole WhiteAustralian Centre for Health Services Innovation, School of Public Health and Social Work, Queensland University of Technology, Brisbane, Australia.
Kristin SainaniDivision of Epidemiology, Department of Health Research and Policy, Stanford University, Stanford, USA.
Sophia NimphiusSchool of Medical and Health Science, Edith Cowan University, Joondalup, WA, Australia.
Aaron J CouttsSchool of Sport, Exercise and Rehabilitation, Faculty of Health & University of Technology Sydney (UTS), Human Performance Research Centre, University of Technology Sydney (UTS), Moore Park, NSW, Australia.
Franco M ImpellizzeriSchool of Sport, Exercise and Rehabilitation, Faculty of Health & University of Technology Sydney (UTS), Human Performance Research Centre, University of Technology Sydney (UTS), Moore Park, NSW, Australia.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Inadequacies in the conduct and quality of research are well established across many research domains, including sport science and medicine. Metaresearch-the practice of performing research on research-is presented as a practical vehicle for improving research quality through evaluating the research processes. This article introduces the concept of metaresearch to sport as a new sub-field of sport science. The broad types of metaresearch are introduced, with a mapping of current sports metaresearch activity across these areas. Interdisciplinary centres aimed at improving scientific quality across other fields are also introduced to sport, and specific considerations for beginning metaresearch are provided for sport. This includes, for example, not performing metaresearch poorly, beginning evaluative metaresearch early to intervene before bad practice becomes normalised, leveraging required interdisciplinary expertise depending on the metaresearch question and undertaking an ethical approach for carrying out evaluation of research quality.

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PMID40169510
PMCPMC12011897

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