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Improving the trustworthiness, usefulness, and ethics of biomedical research through an innovative and comprehensive institutional initiative
March 31, 2020

The reproducibility crisis triggered worldwide initiatives to improve rigor, reproducibility, and transparency in biomedical research. There are many examples of scientists,…

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To Have Practical Relevance, Scientific Claims Need to be Accurate
September 10, 2018

For all different stakeholders within the scientific community (researchers, reviewers, editors, policymakers, funding agencies, journalists, and the general public) it is…

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PREPARE (Planning Research and Experimental Procedures on Animals: Recommendations for Excellence) Guidelines
March 30, 2018

As part of ongoing efforts to reduce waste and increase the reproducibility of animal research and testing, a group of experts…

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PREPARE: guidelines for planning animal research and testing
February 26, 2018

The PREPARE (Planning Research and Experimental Procedures on Animals: Recommendations for Excellence) guidelines were published in 2017 to provide overarching guidance on…

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Ioannidis and Khoury, 2014 JAMA
July 21, 2017

In this viewpoint the assessing value in biomedical research is discussed based on research that is Productive, High-quality, Reproducible, Shareable and…

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Guidelines by the European Science Foundation (ESF)
July 21, 2017

The European Code of Conduct for Research Integrity Intended to provide an europe-wide reference, this code addresses  the proper conduct and…

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Steward and Balice-Gordon, 2014 Neuron
July 21, 2017

Review of best practices and presentation of new guidelines with a focus on preclinical studies relevant to human neurological and psychiatric…

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WHO quality practices
July 21, 2017

The WHO provides in this handbook guidance for research institutions and individual researchers to improve the quality of their research data….

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GSP document by DFG
July 21, 2017

Proposal for Safeguarding Good Scientific Practice by the German Research Foundation (DFG). The first recommendations were published in 1997 with an…

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