Guideline 12
Documentation
Researchers document all information relevant to the production of a research result as clearly as is required by and is appropriate for the relevant subject area to allow the result to be reviewed and assessed. In general, this also includes documenting individual results that do not support the research hypothesis. The selection of results must be avoided. Where subject-specific recommendations exist for review and assessment, researchers create documentation in accordance with these guidelines. If the documentation does not satisfy these requirements, the constraints and the reasons for them are clearly explained. Documentation and research results must not be manipulated; they are protected as effectively as possible against manipulation.
Explanations:
An important basis for enabling replication is to make available the information necessary to understand the research (including the research data used or generated, the methodological, evaluation and analytical steps taken, and, if relevant, the development of the hypothesis), to ensure that citations are clear, and, as far as possible, to enable third parties to access this information. Where research software is being developed, the source code is documented.
Comments - Statements (2)
Quality standards in connection with rapid publication
03.12.2020 – Rapid publication of research data and findings by no means allows any compromise to be made in terms of accepted quality standards in the given field.
Comment on: GL7 (Statements) , GL11 (Statements) , GL12 (Statements) , GL13 (Statements) , GL15 (Statements)
Reproducibility of research results in medicine and biomedicine
03.12.2020 – This statement was prepared in 2018 by the DFG Permanent Senate Commission on Key Questions in Clinical Research in consultation with the DFG Permanent Senate Commission on Animal Protection and Experimentation and the DFG Permanent Senate Commission on ...
Comment on: GL7 (Statements) , GL9 (Statements) , GL12 (Statements)