The reality of incomplete reporting: can journal editors do more to help?
A recent systematic review calls for journal editors to urgently review their submission policies.
ChatGPT – key priorities for research and publishing
What can be done to ensure that ChatGPT is used responsibly?
SPIRIT-Outcomes 2022 Extension: guidelines for transparent inclusion of clinical trial outcomes in trial protocols
How to improve outcome reporting in clinical trial protocols: read more about the SPIRIT-Outcomes 2022 Extension.
CONSORT-Outcomes 2022 Extension: guidelines for complete reporting of clinical trial outcomes
The 17 items to include when reporting clinical trial outcomes. Read about the CONSORT-Outcomes 2022 Extension checklist for outcomes of all randomised clinical trials.
FAIR principles for research software: a step forwards in discoverability
Familiarise yourself with the FAIR for Research Software principles, which aim to improve research transparency and reproducibility.
Is enough being done to account for the role of sex in medical research?
Find out why sex matters in medical research and why you should consider sex and gender guidelines when reporting data.
International Women’s Day 2023: can medical publishing do more to #EmbraceEquity?
Women remain underrepresented in medical publishing; we reflect on recent posts from The Publication Plan looking at contributory factors and steps to equity.
Are your AI-generated data reproducible?
AI-based science comes under scrutiny: read about the growing crisis in machine learning.
DECIDE-AI: will it make the development of artificial intelligence-based clinical decision support systems more robust?
New guidelines aim to improve early clinical testing of AI-based systems.
ICMJE recommendations update: what you need to know
Find out what’s new in the latest 2022 update to the ICMJE recommendations.
Data sharing and reporting still suboptimal in vaccine trials
A recent analysis of randomised controlled vaccine trials suggests there are still improvements to be made.
Language-generating AI in science: transformational or deformational?
Read about the potential impacts of large language models, and what needs to happen to ensure they benefit, rather than hinder, scientific fields.
Are we still missing the mark with randomised controlled trial abstracts?
Adherence to the Consolidated Standards of Reporting Trials for Abstracts continues to be inadequate, nearly 15 years after their release.
Addressing race and ethnicity in medical literature
Learn about the current failings in race and ethnicity reporting in regulatory documents and medical literature and how they can be overcome.
CHEERS 2022 statement: reporting guidance for health economic evaluations gets a makeover
Read about the new 28-item checklist developed to aid decision-making in health economic evaluations.
GPP 2022: latest guidelines for company-sponsored publications are out now
Find out what’s new in the eagerly awaited 2022 update to the Good Publication Practice guidelines published in August.