The Evidence Review and Scientific Integrity Unit sets and checks the standards that the rest of the institute works to. It conducts systematic reviews, appraises evidence, and handles reporting standards, reproducibility, corrections and research integrity.
Systematic review, critical appraisal, reproducibility, standards and research integrity.
Verified Sterling IMRES staff will be listed here. Until then, these are the people credited on this division’s library works (not institute staff).
This division’s scope is mainly methodological or editorial, so no registered clinical studies are tracked yet.
A curated, verified library of published articles, reference books and registered studies for each of the nine divisions. Every record is checked against an authoritative source (Crossref, ISBN catalogues or ClinicalTrials.gov) and credited to its real authors and publisher.
Internal workflows for content approval, review dates, corrections and publishing, so every record has a clear owner, reviewer and approver.
BMJ · DOI: 10.1136/bmj-2024-081123
BMJ · DOI: 10.1136/bmj.n71
Journal of Clinical Periodontology · DOI: 10.1111/jcpe.13290
BMJ · DOI: 10.1136/bmj.l4898
BMJ · DOI: 10.1136/bmj.l4185
BMJ · DOI: 10.1136/bmj.j4008
Nature Human Behaviour · DOI: 10.1038/s41562-016-0021
BMJ · DOI: 10.1136/bmj.i4919
The American Statistician · DOI: 10.1080/00031305.2016.1154108
Scientific Data · DOI: 10.1038/sdata.2016.18
PLOS Biology · DOI: 10.1371/journal.pbio.1002128
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences · DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1212247109
Journal of Clinical Epidemiology · DOI: 10.1016/j.jclinepi.2010.04.026
Focus areas: Systematic review methods, Critical appraisal, Responsible research conduct.
How to find, appraise and apply evidence, including risk-of-bias tools and certainty-of-evidence ratings.
Appraising evidence on caries, periodontal disease and oral–systemic links for everyday dental decisions.
A practical workshop that takes a review team from question to a PROSPERO-ready protocol and PRISMA-compliant plan.
What editors need from reviewers, how to structure a review, and the ethical duties of reviewers.
The official guide to how Cochrane systematic reviews of interventions are planned, run and reported. The current edition is version 6.5 (2024), edited by Julian Higgins and James Thomas, and it can be read online at no cost.
A searchable catalogue of more than 700 reporting guidelines for health research. You can filter it by study type, clinical area and report section to find the right checklist for a manuscript.
A handbook by Schünemann, Brożek, Guyatt and Oxman on rating the certainty of evidence and the strength of recommendations with the GRADE approach. It was last updated in 2013 and, according to the page, is being replaced by the newer GRADE Book, but it remains available online.
The official home of the 2025 SPIRIT checklist for trial protocols and the 2025 CONSORT checklist for reporting randomised trial results. Checklists, explanation papers and free online writing aids can all be downloaded at no cost.
The main reporting guideline for systematic reviews and meta-analyses. The site provides the checklist, the flow-diagram template, the explanation papers, extensions for other review types and translations.
The widely adopted standards on authorship, conflicts of interest, peer review and publication ethics for medical journals. The latest version, updated January 2026, can be read online or downloaded as a PDF.
An eight-module e-learning course, taking about three hours, on the updated ICH E6(R3) Good Clinical Practice guideline across the life of a trial. It is offered in English, Spanish, French and Portuguese, and learners who score at least 80% on the final quiz receive a certificate.
NLM's official training for searching PubMed, including short video quick tours, longer tutorials, on-demand classes and handouts. It is regularly updated, and some classes ask for free registration.
Opportunities: Systematic and rapid reviews; Methodological peer review; Integrity and corrections enquiries.
