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Case 5 — Two laboratories, two percentages: are they measuring the same thing? An apparent difference can motivate a method question without proving t...
Expand it on first use and name the discipline and source context. Add a cross-reference for alternate meanings rather than assuming that every histor...
Link the publisher notice beside the citation, record its date and reassess claims that relied on the paper. Do not leave the historical citation look...
Case 1 — Preprint versus peer-reviewed publication Limit of the answer in “Preprint versus peer-reviewed publication”: “Link both versions, record dat...
Case 3 — Units and scale: prevent a silent comparison error Correction note for “Units and scale: prevent a silent comparison error”: retain the wordi...
Was the analysis prespecified or exploratory, and how was uncertainty reported? Record what the paper states and mark unreported fields instead of ass...
Case 19 — Reproducibility checklist for a bench-method discussion A protocol summary omits conditions and controls. What makes the account reproducibl...
Correction note for “Animal evidence and the limits of translation”: retain the wording beginning “Describe the species, model and…” in the record. If...
Link both versions, record dates and check whether methods or conclusions changed. Publication status is useful context but is not itself a guarantee ...
Separate the authors’ proposed mechanism from the measurements that support it. A plausible explanation is not automatically a demonstrated pathway.
Case 20 — A literature note that separates hypothesis from observation Summary draft for “A literature note that separates hypothesis from observation...
Clarification for “An evidence table with room for negative findings”: the point beginning “Include all prespecified outcomes where reported, null…” b...
Case 24 — A correction log for an archive article A transcription error changes the units in a figure caption. How should the archive record be repair...
Ask whether the changed figure affects the archive’s interpretation. Updating a citation alone may leave an unsupported conclusion in the opening summ...
Proposed correction: documentation supplied; method and sample linkage incomplete. Add a dated update if verifiable primary material later resolves th...