Posts in Category ‘Guidelines’
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Improving the trustworthiness, usefulness, and ethics of biomedical research through an innovative and comprehensive institutional initiative
The reproducibility crisis triggered worldwide initiatives to improve rigor, reproducibility, and transparency in biomedical research. There are many examples of scientists, journals, and funding agencies adopting responsible research practices. The QUEST (Quality-Ethics-Open Science-Translation) Center offers a unique opportunity to examine the role of institutions. The Berlin …
New Author Guidelines for Displaying Data and Reporting Data Analysis and Statistical Methods in Experimental Biology
To improve the robustness and transparency of scientific reporting, the American Society for Pharmacology and Experimental Therapeutics (ASPET), with input from PAASP’s Martin Michel, T.J. Murphy and Harvey Motulsky, has updated the Instructions to Authors (ItA) for ASPET’s primary research journals: Drug Metabolism and Disposition, Journal of Pharmacology and Experimental …
A consensus-based transparency checklist
Transparency of research processes is required not only for evaluating and reproducing results, but also for research synthesis and meta-analysis from the raw data and for effective replication and extension of that work.To improve transparency, the authors provide a consensus-based transparency checklist for behavioural and social …
ARRIVE 2.0
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 …
Toward Good In Vitro Reporting Standards
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 …
New Handbook of Experimental Pharmacology focusing on Good Research Practice
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 …
Good Practice for Conference Abstracts and Presentations: GPCAP
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 …