Journals

Medical journals have an important responsibility in setting policies that ensure the trustworthiness of the research they publish. We are studying their data sharing policies.

DATA SHARING RECOMMENDATIONS IN JOURNALS AND RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIALS

To explore the implementation of the International Committee of Medical Journal Editors (ICMJE) data-sharing policy by ICMJE member journals and by affiliated journals declaring they follow the ICMJE recommendations.
Protocol / Paper

RESEARCH TRANSPARENCY PROMOTION BY SURGICAL JOURNALS

To describe surgical journals' position statement on data-sharing policies (primary objective) and to describe the other features of their research transparency promotion.

Protocol / Paper

INTENTION TO SHARE AND RE-USE OF DATA FROM RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIALS DURING THE 10 FIRST YEARS OF ANNALS OF INTERNAL MEDICINE DATA SHARING POLICY: SURVEY OF PUBLISHED STUDIES

To explore The Annals of Internal Medicine data sharing policy’s impact for randomized controlled trials (RCTs) in terms of output from data sharing (i.e. publications re-using the data).

Protocol / PrePrint / Paper

DATA SHARING AND REANALYSIS OF RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIALS IN LEADING BIOMEDICAL JOURNALS WITH A FULL DATA SHARING POLICY: SURVEY OF STUDIES PUBLISHED IN THE BMJ AND PLOS MEDICINE

To explore the effectiveness of data sharing by randomized controlled trials (RCTs) in journals with a full data sharing policy and to describe potential difficulties encountered in the process of performing reanalyses of the primary outcomes.
Protocol / Paper

MEDICAL JOURNAL REQUIREMENTS FOR CLINICAL TRIAL DATA SHARING: RIPE FOR IMPROVEMENT

Efficient sharing and reuse of data from clinical trials are critical in advancing medical knowledge and developing improved treatments. We believe that the International Committee of Medical Journal Editors (ICMJE) clin- ical trial data sharing policy is currently inadequate.

Paper

DATA SHARING PRACTICES IN THE SURGICAL FIELD

To explore the effectiveness of RCTs data sharing policies in leading surgical journals before and after the ICMJE policy.
Protocol / Paper