AIMOS (the Association for Interdisciplinary Meta-Research and Open Science), was founded by academics from the University of Melbourne, Swinburne and Deakin Universities to promote the new academic field of meta-research, aimed at improving scientific culture and practice in Australia and New Zealand.

The aims of the association are to advocate for the interdisciplinary field of meta-research by bringing together and supporting scholars in that field and to promote open science and best-practice research methods.

Science aims to produce robust knowledge and the concept of reproducible experiments is central to this. However the past decade has seen a ‘reproducibility crisis’ in science.

Across a number of scientific fields, such as psychology and preclinical medicine, large-scale replication projects have failed to produce evidence supporting the findings of many original studies. Meta-research will address this challenge head on.