Rigor, Transparency, and Reporting Social Science Research

Science and Ethics in Conducting, Analyzing, and Reporting Social Science Research: Implications for Social Scientists, Judges, and Lawyers

Public Reporting and Transparency

Interest in collecting and publicly reporting information about the cost and quality of health care has been growing. Yet questions remain about the accuracy of reported price, process, and outcome information; the comparability of results across different populations; and whether and how patients and others use the information to make decisions. Advocates for public reporting argue that it wil...

Enhancing transparency in reporting the synthesis of qualitative research: ENTREQ

BACKGROUND The syntheses of multiple qualitative studies can pull together data across different contexts, generate new theoretical or conceptual models, identify research gaps, and provide evidence for the development, implementation and evaluation of health interventions. This study aims to develop a framework for reporting the synthesis of qualitative health research. METHODS We conducted ...

Enhancing the reporting and transparency of rheumatology research: a guide to reporting guidelines

Manuscripts and abstracts from biomedical journals frequently do not contain proper information for meeting required standards and serving the multiple needs of their end users. Reporting guidelines and checklists help researchers to meet those standards by providing rules or principles for specific research areas. Rheumatology research includes a broad range of heterogeneous research areas, ea...

Rigor and Practice-based Research

Rigor is one of the cornerstones of high-quality academic research. For example, the UK Research Assessment Exercise 2008 (RAE) describes the highest grade of research as possessing " quality that is world-leading in terms of originality, significance, and rigour. " 1 This paper addresses the criterion of rigor in the context of so-called practice-based research in design. It is the autho...