About the Authors

Stylianos Serghiou

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Software, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

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

Despina G. Contopoulos-Ioannidis

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Investigation, Methodology, Validation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Division of Infectious Diseases, Department of Pediatrics, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, California, United States of America

Kevin W. Boyack

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Resources, Validation, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation SciTech Strategies, Inc., Albuquerque, New Mexico, United States of America

Nico Riedel

Roles Software, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Berlin Institute of Health, QUEST Center for Transforming Biomedical Research, Berlin, Germany

Joshua D. Wallach

Roles Conceptualization, Investigation, Methodology, Validation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Environmental Health Sciences, Yale School of Public Health, New Haven, Connecticut, United States of America

John P. A. Ioannidis

Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Methodology, Project administration, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

jioannid@stanford.edu

Affiliations Department of Epidemiology and Population Health, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, California, United States of America, Meta-Research Innovation Center at Stanford (METRICS), Stanford School of Medicine, Stanford, California, United States of America, Stanford Prevention Research Center, Department of Medicine, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, California, United States of America, Department of Biomedical Data Science, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, California, United States of America, Department of Statistics, Stanford University School of Humanities and Sciences, Stanford, California, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.