About the Authors

Claude Pellen

Roles Conceptualization, Writing – original draft

cld.pellen@gmail.com

Affiliation Univ Rennes, CHU Rennes, Inserm, Irset (Institut de recherche en santé, environnement et travail)—UMR_S 1085, CIC 1414 [(Centre d’Investigation Clinique de Rennes)], Rennes, France

Anne Le Louarn

Roles Writing – review & editing

Affiliation GCS CNCR (Comité National de Coordination de la Recherche), Paris, France

Gilliosa Spurrier-Bernard

Roles Writing – review & editing

Affiliations MelanomeFrance, Teilhet, France, Melanoma Patient Network Europe, Uppsala, Sweden

Evelyne Decullier

Roles Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Hospices Civils de Lyon, Pôle Santé Publique, Service REC, Lyon, France, Université de Lyon, Lyon, France

Jean-Marie Chrétien

Roles Writing – review & editing

Affiliation CHU Angers, DRI–Département Science de la Donnée, Angers, France

Eric Rosenthal

Roles Writing – review & editing

Affiliation ANRS|Maladies infectieuses émergentes, PariSanté Campus, Paris, France

Gérard Le Goff

Roles Writing – review & editing

Affiliation France Rein Bretagne, Laillé, France

David Moher

Roles Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Centre for Journalology, Clinical Epidemiology Program, Ottawa Hospital Research Institute, Ottawa, Canada

John P. A. Ioannidis

Roles Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Departments of Medicine, Epidemiology and Population Health, Biomedical Data Science, and Statistics, and Meta-Research Innovation Center at Stanford (METRICS), Stanford University, Stanford, California, United States of America

Florian Naudet

Roles Conceptualization, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Univ Rennes, CHU Rennes, Inserm, Irset (Institut de recherche en santé, environnement et travail)—UMR_S 1085, CIC 1414 [(Centre d’Investigation Clinique de Rennes)], Rennes, France, Institut Universitaire de France (IUF), Paris, France

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.