Disseminating your reporting guideline
Simply publishing a reporting guideline is unlikely to make a difference to the quality of future reporting. An implementation plan will help ensure that your reporting guideline reaches the researchers who need it. Some common strategies are:
- Making the checklist freely available in an editable format
- Creating a dedicated website containing additional resources
- An updated entry in the EQUATOR Network database
- Publishing journal editorials, written by your team or by the journal staff. It is particularly effective to have a number of journals in a field simultaneously publish an editorial in support of your guideline
- Obtaining journal and other organisational endorsement
- Presenting your guideline at relevant conferences and meetings
- Writing blog posts and other social media posts about your guideline
- Delivering a webinar explaining your guideline
- Developing and delivering training in using your guideline, whether face-to-face or online
- Partnering with the EQUATOR Network or similar organisations in their promotional activities
Navigate this toolkit
- Go back to the Toolkit homepage
- Read more about identifying the need for a reporting guideline
- Read more about getting ready to develop a reporting guideline
- Read more about developing your reporting guideline
- Read more about writing up and publishing your reporting guideline
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- Read more about updating your reporting guideline
- Find more resources on developing a reporting guideline
The guidance in this toolkit is based on the EQUATOR publication “Guidance for developers of health research reporting guidelines“. We hope you find the contents of this toolkit helpful. If you have any questions or concerns, please get in touch with the EQUATOR Network team by email, on Twitter, or on Facebook. We welcome any training materials or literature collections that you have found useful in your development of reporting guidelines!
This page was last updated on 28 June 2018