About the Authors

David Moher

dmoher@ohri.ca

Affiliations Centre for Journalology, Clinical Epidemiology Program, Ottawa Hospital Research Institute, Ottawa, Canada, Meta-Research Innovation Center at Stanford (METRICS), Stanford University, Stanford, California, United States of America

Florian Naudet

Affiliations Meta-Research Innovation Center at Stanford (METRICS), Stanford University, Stanford, California, United States of America, INSERM CIC-P 1414, Clinical Investigation Center, CHU Rennes, Rennes 1 University, Rennes, France

Ioana A. Cristea

Affiliations Meta-Research Innovation Center at Stanford (METRICS), Stanford University, Stanford, California, United States of America, Department of Clinical Psychology and Psychotherapy, Babeş-Bolyai University, Cluj-Napoca, Romania

Frank Miedema

Affiliation Executive Board, UMC Utrecht, Utrecht University, Utrecht, the Netherlands

John P. A. Ioannidis

Affiliations Meta-Research Innovation Center at Stanford (METRICS), Stanford University, Stanford, California, United States of America, Department of Medicine, Stanford University, Stanford, California, United States of America, Department of Health Research and Policy, Stanford University, Stanford, California, United States of America, Department of Biomedical Data Science, Stanford University, Stanford, California, United States of America, Department of Statistics, Stanford University, Stanford, California, United States of America

Steven N. Goodman

Affiliations Meta-Research Innovation Center at Stanford (METRICS), Stanford University, Stanford, California, United States of America, Department of Medicine, Stanford University, Stanford, California, United States of America, Department of Health Research and Policy, Stanford University, Stanford, California, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.