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Encouraging responsible reporting practices in the Instructions to Authors of neuroscience and physiology journals: There is room to improve
Journals can substantially influence the quality of research reports by including responsible reporting practices in their Instructions to Authors. We assessed the extent to which 100 journals in neuroscience and physiology required authors to report methods and results in a rigorous and transparent...
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2023
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10062619/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36996120 http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0283753 |
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author | Diong, Joanna Bye, Elizabeth Djajadikarta, Zoë Butler, Annie A. Gandevia, Simon C. Héroux, Martin E. |
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description | Journals can substantially influence the quality of research reports by including responsible reporting practices in their Instructions to Authors. We assessed the extent to which 100 journals in neuroscience and physiology required authors to report methods and results in a rigorous and transparent way. For each journal, Instructions to Authors and any referenced reporting guideline or checklist were downloaded from journal websites. Twenty-two questions were developed to assess how journal Instructions to Authors address fundamental aspects of rigor and transparency in five key reporting areas. Journal Instructions to Authors and all referenced external guidelines and checklists were audited against these 22 questions. Of the full sample of 100 Instructions to Authors, 34 did not reference any external reporting guideline or checklist. Reporting whether clinical trial protocols were pre-registered was required by 49 journals and encouraged by 7 others. Making data publicly available was encouraged by 64 journals; making (processing or statistical) code publicly available was encouraged by ∼30 of the journals. Other responsible reporting practices were mentioned by less than 20 of the journals. Journals can improve the quality of research reports by mandating, or at least encouraging, the responsible reporting practices highlighted here. |
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spelling | pubmed-100626192023-03-31 Encouraging responsible reporting practices in the Instructions to Authors of neuroscience and physiology journals: There is room to improve Diong, Joanna Bye, Elizabeth Djajadikarta, Zoë Butler, Annie A. Gandevia, Simon C. Héroux, Martin E. PLoS One Research Article Journals can substantially influence the quality of research reports by including responsible reporting practices in their Instructions to Authors. We assessed the extent to which 100 journals in neuroscience and physiology required authors to report methods and results in a rigorous and transparent way. For each journal, Instructions to Authors and any referenced reporting guideline or checklist were downloaded from journal websites. Twenty-two questions were developed to assess how journal Instructions to Authors address fundamental aspects of rigor and transparency in five key reporting areas. Journal Instructions to Authors and all referenced external guidelines and checklists were audited against these 22 questions. Of the full sample of 100 Instructions to Authors, 34 did not reference any external reporting guideline or checklist. Reporting whether clinical trial protocols were pre-registered was required by 49 journals and encouraged by 7 others. Making data publicly available was encouraged by 64 journals; making (processing or statistical) code publicly available was encouraged by ∼30 of the journals. Other responsible reporting practices were mentioned by less than 20 of the journals. Journals can improve the quality of research reports by mandating, or at least encouraging, the responsible reporting practices highlighted here. Public Library of Science 2023-03-30 /pmc/articles/PMC10062619/ /pubmed/36996120 http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0283753 Text en © 2023 Diong et al https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) , which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited. |
spellingShingle | Research Article Diong, Joanna Bye, Elizabeth Djajadikarta, Zoë Butler, Annie A. Gandevia, Simon C. Héroux, Martin E. Encouraging responsible reporting practices in the Instructions to Authors of neuroscience and physiology journals: There is room to improve |
title | Encouraging responsible reporting practices in the Instructions to Authors of neuroscience and physiology journals: There is room to improve |
title_full | Encouraging responsible reporting practices in the Instructions to Authors of neuroscience and physiology journals: There is room to improve |
title_fullStr | Encouraging responsible reporting practices in the Instructions to Authors of neuroscience and physiology journals: There is room to improve |
title_full_unstemmed | Encouraging responsible reporting practices in the Instructions to Authors of neuroscience and physiology journals: There is room to improve |
title_short | Encouraging responsible reporting practices in the Instructions to Authors of neuroscience and physiology journals: There is room to improve |
title_sort | encouraging responsible reporting practices in the instructions to authors of neuroscience and physiology journals: there is room to improve |
topic | Research Article |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10062619/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36996120 http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0283753 |
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