TY - JOUR
AU1 - Østengaard, Lasse
AU2 - Barrientos, Ariel
AU3 - Boutron, Isabelle
AU4 - Chan, An‐Wen
AU5 - Collins, Gary
AU6 - Hopewell, Sally
AU7 - Moher, David
AU8 - Nejstgaard, Camilla Hansen
AU9 - Schulz, Kenneth F.
AU1 - Speich, Benjamin
AU1 - Tang, Evan
AU1 - Tunn, Ruth
AU1 - Watanabe, Nozomi
AU1 - Xu, Chenchen
AU1 - Hróbjartsson, Asbjørn
AB - INTRODUCTIONAcross all academic fields, it is common practice for authors of scientific publications to include references to previous studies. In the ideal scenario, references are identified and selected on academic merit to communicate, in a balanced manner, an explicit and conscientious link between the new study and the relevant scientific literature.Identification and discussion of previous studies (e.g., related to epidemiological background, estimations of intervention effects, or theoretical considerations), provides the basis for framing the relevance of the research question posed by the new study. It also supports reflections on what the new study adds to the results of previous ones, whether the chosen methods were adequate, and more generally how the pattern of results relates to what is already known. Ideally, references communicate a web of pre‐study theoretical and empirical evidence, tailored specifically for the study at hand.However, the overwhelming and increasing number of scientific publications [1] challenges this ideal, and lack of references to, and awareness of previous core studies is both frequent and a central mechanism of research waste. [2, 3] This has prompted calls for a more systematic approach to referencing in general, and for no new studies to be planned without a preparatory systematic review. 
TI - Development of a topic‐specific bibliographic database supporting the updates of SPIRIT 2013 and CONSORT 2010
JF - Cochrane Evidence Synthesis and Methods
DO - 10.1002/cesm.12057
DA - 2024-05-01
UR - https://www.deepdyve.com/lp/wiley/development-of-a-topic-specific-bibliographic-database-supporting-the-56Hj5WE5iT
VL - 2
IS - 5
DP - DeepDyve
ER -