Self-experimentation

Self-experimentation refers to single-subject research in which the experimenter conducts the experiment on themself.

Usually this means that a single person is the designer, operator, subject, analyst, and user or reporter of the experiment.

Also referred to as Personal science or N-of-1 research,^[1] self-experimentation is an example of citizen science,^[2] since it can also be led by patients or people interested in their own health and well-being, as both research subjects and self-experimenters.

^ Martijn De Groot; Mark Drangsholt; Fernando J Martin-Sanchez; Gary Wolf (2017). "Single subject (N-of-1) research design, data processing, and personal science". Methods of Information in Medicine. 56 (6): 416–418. doi:10.3414/ME17-03-0001. PMID 29582912. S2CID 4387788.
^ Nils B. Heyen (2020). "From self-tracking to self-expertise: The production of self-related knowledge by doing personal science". Public Understanding of Science. 29 (2): 124–138. doi:10.1177/0963662519888757. PMC 7323767. PMID 31778095. S2CID 208335554.

[1] Martijn De Groot; Mark Drangsholt; Fernando J Martin-Sanchez; Gary Wolf (2017). "Single subject (N-of-1) research design, data processing, and personal science". Methods of Information in Medicine. 56 (6): 416–418. doi:10.3414/ME17-03-0001. PMID 29582912. S2CID 4387788.

[2] Nils B. Heyen (2020). "From self-tracking to self-expertise: The production of self-related knowledge by doing personal science". Public Understanding of Science. 29 (2): 124–138. doi:10.1177/0963662519888757. PMC 7323767. PMID 31778095. S2CID 208335554.

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