EQUATOR News
14/08/2014 Making sense of reporting guidelinesTalks and slides discussing how can editors improve the quality of reporting in their journals and offering practical steps how to make it happen are now available on the EQUATOR website. The talks were presented in the special session “Reporting […]
12/08/2014 Declaration of transparencyA BMJ editorial published by D. Altman and D. Moher, two key leaders of the EQUATOR initiative, proposes that authors of research papers are asked to sign a declaration that their paper is not misleading. The scientific community and the […]
15/07/2014 The CROWN Initiative: Journal editors lead the way in the effort to standardise outcome measures in women’s health researchFifty-six of the top journals in the field of obstetrics and gynaecology are leading the CROWN Initiative – an international effort to encourage researchers to collect and report core outcome sets in studies of key conditions in women’s health. A […]
01/07/2014 Exciting new collaboration between EQUATOR and the Global Health NetworkEQUATOR are delighted to announce a new collaboration with the Global Health Network, in recognition of our shared goals of capacity building, and in improving the conduct and reporting of health-related research worldwide. A key area of collaboration will be […]
02/06/2014 EQUATOR is recruitingWe have a new exciting position funded by the Cancer Research UK – EQUATOR Research Fellow in Oncology Research Methodology. Further details are available here.
28/05/2014 Journals must adopt high methodological standardsA new editorial by Paul Glasziou “The Role of Open Access in Reducing Waste in Medical Research” published in PLoS Medicine discusses an important issue of minimising the avoidable waste in health research in the context of open access journals. […]
22/05/2014 Scientific meeting and EQUATOR Annual Lecture 2014The INSERM-Sorbonne Paris Cite Epidemiology and Statistics Research Centre in collaboration with the EQUATOR Network held a highly informative one-day scientific meeting in Paris on 16 May 2014. Focusing on
09/05/2014 researchwaste.netFollowing the publication of the Lancet series on waste in research a new website has been launched called researchwaste.net which aims to provide a hub for sharing information and resources regarding how to increase the value of both basic and […]
25/04/2014 EQUATOR Network Newsletter April 2014The April 2014 issue of our newsletter is now available. Contents include
15/04/2014 Implementation of reporting guidelines in journals: Wolters Kluwer experienceWolters Kluwer has recently introduced open access article types to their newly fully open access journal title Medicine. The journal’s open access article types require authors to adhere to appropriate reporting guidelines and to submit checklists and flow diagrams when […]