Medical journal requirements for clinical trial data sharing: Ripe for improvement

PLoS Med. 2021 Oct 25;18(10):e1003844. doi: 10.1371/journal.pmed.1003844. eCollection 2021 Oct.

Florian Naudet¹, Maximilian Siebert¹, Claude Pellen¹, Jeanne Gaba¹, Cathrine Axfors^{2

3}, Ioana Cristea⁴, Valentin Danchev^{2

5}, Ulrich Mansmann^{6

7}, Christian Ohmann⁸, Joshua D Wallach⁹, David Moher^{10

11}, John P A Ioannidis^{2

12}

¹ Univ Rennes, CHU Rennes, Inserm, CIC 1414 [(Centre d'Investigation Clinique de Rennes)], Rennes, France.
² Meta-Research Innovation Center at Stanford (METRICS), Stanford University, California, United States of America.
³ Department for Women's and Children's Health, Uppsala University, Uppsala, Sweden.
⁴ Department of Brain and Behavioral Sciences, University of Pavia, Pavia, Italy.
⁵ Stanford Prevention Research Center, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, California, United States of America.
⁶ Ludwig-Maximilians University Munich, Institute for Medical Information Processing, Biometry, and Epidemiology, München, Germany.
⁷ Ludwig-Maximilians University Munich, OSCLMU-Open Science Center LMU, München, Germany.
⁸ European Clinical Research Infrastructure Network (ECRIN), Düsseldorf, Germany.
⁹ Department of Environmental Health Sciences, Yale School of Public Health, New Haven, Connecticut, United States of America.
¹⁰ Center for Journalology, Clinical Epidemiology Program, Ottawa Hospital Research Institute, Ottawa, Canada.
¹¹ School of Epidemiology and Public Health, University of Ottawa, Ottawa, Canada.
¹² Departments of Medicine, of Epidemiology and Population Health, of Biomedical Data Science, and of Statistics, Stanford University, California, United States of America.

Abstract

Florian Naudet and co-authors discuss strengthening requirements for sharing clinical trial data.