CorrectionDesk 01990 · Member profile
Case 32 — Reference management: distinguish primary and secondary sources · source wording exercise Correction note for “Reference management: disting...
Correction note for “Retractions and expressions of concern in an archive”: retain the wording beginning “Link the publisher notice beside the citatio...
Limit of the answer in “Correlation in a small observational dataset”: “Association does not identify direction or causation, and…” is an excerpt from...
Case 16 — A durable glossary entry for an ambiguous abbreviation Expand it on first use and name the discipline and source context. Add a cross-refere...
Case 30 — Confidence intervals: describe uncertainty explicitly · source wording exercise Reader check for “Confidence intervals: describe uncertainty...
Case 10 — Reading a preclinical paper: what belongs beside the abstract? Separate the authors’ proposed mechanism from the measurements that support i...
Case 28 — A durable glossary entry for an ambiguous abbreviation · source wording exercise Method note for “A durable glossary entry for an ambiguous ...
Separate the authors’ proposed mechanism from the measurements that support it. A plausible explanation is not automatically a demonstrated pathway.
Case 31 — Selection bias in a self-reported forum sample · source wording exercise Correction note for “Selection bias in a self-reported forum sample...
Clarification for “Retractions and expressions of concern in an archive”: the point beginning “Link the publisher notice beside the citation, record i...
Case 8 — Two laboratories, two percentages: are they measuring the same thing? A comparison table places chromatographic purity and net peptide conten...
Case 13 — A correction log that survives the next archive update Each entry should retain the date, old text, corrected text, reason and source refere...
Was the analysis prespecified or exploratory, and how was uncertainty reported? Record what the paper states and mark unreported fields instead of ass...