Applying Metascientific Principles to Autism Research

This book presents several metascientific strategies and explains how they can be used to improve research about the autism spectrum. It begins with an introduction to the field of metascience and the benefits that it brings to academic disciplines and society. It then outlines recommendations that researchers can adopt so that they do not incorporate specious autism research from predatory publishers into their research activities. An introduction to reproducibility and strategies that can improve the reproducibility of autism research are then outlined. This is followed by chapters about improving the peer review process and reducing the prospect of questionable research practices from occurring. This book concludes with a chapter about strategies that researchers can use to improve the participation of autistics in research. Such knowledge will equip academics, regardless of their experience, with the skills and expertise they need to produce high-quality and inclusive research about the autism spectrum.

Challenges current conventions about how to competently perform research about the autism spectrum Helps readers understand some of the weaknesses inherent to the research techniques currently used to study autism Offers practical ideas for academics to improve the quality of their research about the autism spectrum

Autorentext

Dr Matthew Bennett is an independent researcher who has spent more than ten years researching the autism spectrum. He has published six books about the autism spectrum.

Inhalt

Chapter One Introduction.-Chapter Two Preventing the certification and proliferation of specious research.- Chapter Three Addressing the reproducibility crisis.- Chapter Four Evaluating and improving the peer review process.- Chapter Five Reducing questionable research practices.- Chapter Six Creating studies that are respectful of autistic participants.