Parent for different guidelines
A long-awaited revision of the ARRIVE guidelines has finally been published (The ARRIVE guidelines 2019).What impact can we expect from ARRIVE 2.0? At the very least, we hope that the Nature journals will update their life sciences checklist, which will certainly have an impact. As an example, let’s …
Many areas of biomedical science have developed reporting standards and checklists to support the adequate reporting of scientific efforts, but in vitro research still has no generally accepted criteria. In this article, the authors discuss ‘focus points’ of in vitro research, ensuring that the scientific community …
The Handbook of Experimental Pharmacology is one of the most authoritative and influential book series in pharmacology. It provides critical and comprehensive discussions of the most significant areas of pharmacological research.PAASP members have contributed to the new Handbook of Experimental Pharmacology “Good Research Practice in Pharmacology …
GPCAP provides recommendations on good submission and presentation practice for scientific and medical congresses. These recommendations cover conference abstracts, posters and slides for oral presentations. GPCAP focuses on company-sponsored research i.e. research that is sponsored and/or funded by a pharmaceutical, medical device or biotechnology company. Company-sponsored …
For all different stakeholders within the scientific community (researchers, reviewers, editors, policymakers, funding agencies, journalists, and the general public) it is important that scientific claims are as accurate as possible. However, there is increasing evidence questioning the robustness and accuracy of social and biomedical research outcomes. …
There is a growing concern that flawed statistics and deficient reproducibility in biomedical studies results in an unethical waste of animals in research. This review by Romain-Daniel Gosselin aims to provide guidelines in biostatistics for researchers, based on frequently observed mistakes, misuses and misconceptions as well …
The ARRIVE guidelines are widely endorsed but compliance is limited. The IICARus Collaboration group sought to determine whether journal-requested completion of an ARRIVE checklist improves full compliance with the guidelines. In a randomised controlled trial, manuscripts reporting in vivo animal research submitted to PLOS ONE (March-June …
Unambiguous identification of antibodies, cell lines and organisms around the globe: A call for the Research Resource ID The reproducibility crisis affecting different research areas is widely discussed, and – without any doubt- the underlying causes are very complex. It is also clear that there is …
