Guidelines

March 31, 2020

by Bjorn

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 …

December 18, 2019

by Bjorn

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 …

November 22, 2019

by Anton Bespalov

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 …

November 22, 2019

by Christoph Emmerich

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 …

November 22, 2019

by Bjorn

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 …

August 12, 2019

by Bjorn

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 …

August 12, 2019

by Bjorn

Guidelines

Willing to test ARRIVE guidelines?

The NC3R is looking for volunteers to test and share experience about the newly published ARRIVE guidelines. Testing newly developed guidelines for practicability is always an important step. Please contact the institution on THIS WEB SITE. We would also be interested to hear your thoughts on …

July 18, 2019

by Bjorn

Updated Arrive guidelines 2019

A long awaited revision of the ARRIVE guidelines has finally been published. There are three main reasons why the revision was badly needed and comes at the right time. First, the list of recommendations has been re-worked to identify the Essential 10 – i.e. those recommendations that …

September 10, 2018

by Bjorn

To Have Practical Relevance, Scientific Claims Need to be Accurate

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. …