Good practices for scientific publication

Author's qualities essential for a good scientific publication.

Medical publications are an important means to gain recognition as experts in a particular field at national and international levels. Publications will leads to benefits such as invitations to lecture at scientific meetings and refresher courses, appointments as consultants to external agencies, expert panels and advisory boards, and to reviewer and editorial boards of journals. I would like t...

Good enough practices in scientific computing

Computers are now essential in all branches of science, but most researchers are never taught the equivalent of basic lab skills for research computing. As a result, data can get lost, analyses can take much longer than necessary, and researchers are limited in how effectively they can work with software and data. Computing workflows need to follow the same practices as lab projects and noteboo...

Good Usability Practices in Scientific Software Development

Scientific software often presents very particular requirements regarding usability, which is often completely overlooked in this setting. As computational science has emerged as its own discipline, distinct from theoretical and experimental science, it has put new requirements on future scientific software developments. In this paper, we discuss the background of these problems and introduce n...

Good Laboratory Practices Are Not Synonymous with Good Scientific Practices, Accurate Reporting, or Valid Data

Good publication practices for pharmaceutical companies: why we need another set of guidelines.

Peer-reviewed publication is an integral part of biomedical research; yet, although the conduct of trials sponsored by pharmaceutical companies is closely regulated by Good Clinical Practice (GCP), their reporting had, until now, no such framework. Journal editors have highlighted the problems that can arise if the relationship between sponsor companies and academic investigators is abused. In ...