After finishing School of Medicine at the University of Zagreb, Croatia, Mario Malički obtained an MA in Literature and Medicine at King’s College, London, UK, and then worked at the University of Split School of Medicine, Croatia where he obtained a PhD in Medical Ethics titled: Integrity of scientific publications in biomedicine. From 2017-2019 Mario was a postdoc at AMC and ASUS Amsterdam, Netherlands, and in 2020 he joined METRICS at Stanford University, USA where he focuses on meta-research of preprints and peer review. He is also a Co-Editor-in-Chief of Research Integrity and Peer Review journal (RIPR).

Mario is a member of Cochrane Croatia, and has been researching authorship, peer review, duplicate publications, and publication bias. His interests also include medical ethics, hope, statistics, speculative fiction, Frank Herbert’s opus and Leonard Cohen’s poetry. Since 2017, he has been a postdoc at AMC and ASUS Amsterdam, Netherlands, researching the role of journals in fostering responsible conduct of research.