Over the past several years, more and more journals have revised their guides for authors and included specific instructions on information…

By Iris Lechner The field of research integrity is growing substantially. An increasing number of guidelines and initiatives to foster responsible research…

Comment on Walsh et al. “The statistical significance of randomized controlled trial results is frequently fragile: a case for a Fragility…

Commentary provided by Claudia Kurreck (Department of Experimental Neurology, Charité -Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Germany) The performance of audits and assessments is always a…

Good research practices are often said to work against the current success model in science (based on positive results, number and…

It has been proposed repeatedly that adding samples based on results of initial experiments is a form of p-hacking (see e.g. new…

A few months ago, the “Reproducibility and Replicability in Science” report from the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine was…

We have read with great interest a recent commentary in Nature about scientific research organizations hiring integrity reviewers to vet their manuscripts before…

A long-awaited revision of the ARRIVE guidelines has finally been published (The ARRIVE guidelines 2019).What impact can we expect from ARRIVE…

The randomization of study subjects is commonly discussed for in vivo studies and is in general an accepted practice. However, for…