Is it time to redesign peer review?
Read about proposed strategies to make peer review less burdensome and improve the quality of published research.
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.
Are your AI-generated data reproducible?
AI-based science comes under scrutiny: read about the growing crisis in machine learning.
Are research data FAIR enough?
Find out why, despite implementation of mandates, current research data may not be FAIR.
Will a cross-publisher integrity hub aid the battle against fake research?
Publishers join with STM to develop new standardised tools to tackle paper mills.
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.
Spotting fake images in scientific research: insights from science integrity consultant Elisabeth Bik
Elisabeth Bik discusses the importance of science integrity and the issue of manipulated images within scientific publications.
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.
How common is data sharing for COVID-19 preprints?
An analysis of early COVID-19 preprints identified low uptake of data sharing statements and making data accessible.
The reality of data sharing behaviour: do researchers share their data as promised?
A recent study revealed that many researchers fail to comply with their data sharing statement.
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.
GRReaT expectations: are editable templates the future of manuscript writing?
Read about EQUATOR Network’s updated GoodReports website, new downloadable and editable article templates and a call for researchers to help test whether the templates improve research reporting.
NIH bid to tackle reproducibility crisis – is data sharing the answer?
Read about the upcoming NIH requirement to include a data management and sharing plan in all grant applications for projects collecting scientific data.
Should open science focus more on open methods?
We’ve heard of open data, but should we also consider open methods as standard?
PRISMA-S: guidance for reporting literature search methods for systematic reviews published
The PRISMA-S checklist aims to ensure transparent reporting and maximum reproducibility of literature searches performed as part of systematic reviews.
Open science is accelerated as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic
Find out how COVID-19 has benefited data sharing and what your organisation can do to advance open science from the State of Open Data 2020 report.