Mario Malički

After finishing School of Medicine at the University of Zagreb, Croatia, I obtained an MA in Literature and Medicine at King’s College, London, UK, and then worked at the University of Split School of Medicine in Departments of Medical Humanities and Research in biomedicine and health, where I obtained my PhD in Medical Ethics titled: Integrity of scientific publications in biomedicine. I have been researching publication practices, peer review, research integrity, and medical education. From 2017 to 2019 I have been a postdoc at AMC and ASUS Amsterdam, Netherlands; in 2019 a visiting scholar at the ScholCommLab, and in 2020 I joined METRICS as a postdoc with the focus on meta-research of preprints. Since 2022 I am an Associate Director of Stanford Program on Research Rigor and Reproducibility (SPORR). My other interests include medical ethics, hope, statistics, speculative fiction, Frank Herbert’s opus and Leonard Cohen’s poetry. I am also Editor-in-Chief of Research Integrity and Peer Review journal.

METRICS start date: 15 January 2020

METRICS Projects:

• Preprint observatory project
• Offensive comments in peer review 

METRICS Publications:

• Preprint Servers' Policies, Submission Requirements, and Transparency in Reporting and Research Integrity Recommendations
• The worldwide clinical trial research response to the COVID-19 pandemic - the first 100 days
• Analysis of single comments left for bioRxiv preprints till September 2019.
• Attitudes and practices of open data, preprinting, and peer-review—A cross sectional study on Croatian scientists
• Honorary Authorship in Health Sciences: A Protocol for a Systematic Review of Survey Research 
• Statistical guidance to authors at top-ranked scientific journals: A cross-disciplinary assessment