Validating the rigour of adaptive methods of economic evaluation by Nidhi Gupta, Shankar Prinja, Abha Mehndiratta, Akashdeep Singh Chauhan, Deepshikha Sharma, Basant Garg, Amneet P Kumar

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Achieving Rigour and Relevance in Information Systems Studies by Walter D Fernández, Hans Lehmann

“…Contrary to the view seeing rigour and relevance as a dichotomy, it is maintained that IS researchers have a third choice; namely, to be both relevant and rigorous. …”
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Judging the Quality of Legal Research: A Qualified Response to the Demand for Greater Methodological Rigour by Theunis Roux

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Re-evaluating adjuvant systemic therapy in cancer treatment: Scientific rigour to guide policy and practice by Daniel JM Ang, Mohamad Farid

“…This article considers the validity of these data in the context of fundamental principles of adjuvant therapy, as well as the scientific rigour of the relevant registration trials. We propose a greater role for practising oncologists in the regulatory and reimbursement process, using the Singaporean context as an example.…”
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Methodological rigour and reporting quality of the literature on wildlife rescue, rehabilitation, and release: a global systematic review by Gloeta N. Massie, Louis J. Backstrom, Daniel P. Holland, Mandy B.A. Paterson, Richard A. Fuller

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Sustainability, Reporting and Market Access for Grain and Oilseed Growers: Can Yield Data Provide More Rigour and Transparency? by Robert Clark, Peter Dahlhaus, Nathan Robinson, Elizabeth Morse‐McNabb

“…This paper explores the current state of global sustainability reporting and examines whether yield data could improve the sustainability of farming by adding more rigour and transparency to the evidential basis of sustainability. …”
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Working With Community Research Partners to Undertake Sensitive Public Health Interviews: A Qualitative Protocol to Enhance Rigour and Safety by Kimberley Clare O’Sullivan, Mary Buchanan, Lori Leigh, Rachel Kowalchuk Dohig, Tīria Pehi, Matthew Jenkins, Nevil Pierse, Lynda Ryan, Brodie Fraser

“…We reflect on the processes we put in place with the aim of minimising risk to both interviewers and participants when discussing sensitive topics, while maintaining research rigour. By making this protocol available to fellow researchers and community partners we hope to encourage further discussion of best practice for engaging in sensitive interviews in community-based research.…”
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Better statistical reporting does not lead to statistical rigour: lessons from two decades of pseudoreplication in mouse-model studies of neurological disorders by Constantinos Eleftheriou, Sarah Giachetti, Raven Hickson, Laura Kamnioti-Dumont, Robert Templaar, Alina Aaltonen, Eleni Tsoukala, Nawon Kim, Lysandra Fryer-Petridis, Chloe Henley, Ceren Erdem, Emma Wilson, Beatriz Maio, Jingjing Ye, Jessica C. Pierce, Kath Mazur, Lucia Landa-Navarro, Nina G. Petrović, Sarah Bendova, Hanan Woods, Manuela Rizzi, Vanesa Salazar-Sanchez, Natasha Anstey, Antonios Asiminas, Shinjini Basu, Sam A. Booker, Anjanette Harris, Sam Heyes, Adam Jackson, Alex Crocker-Buque, Aoife C. McMahon, Sally M. Till, Lasani S. Wijetunge, David JA Wyllie, Catherine M. Abbott, Timothy O’Leary, Peter C. Kind

“…While many journals have adopted stringent requirements with regard to statistical reporting over the last decade, it remains unknown whether such efforts have had a meaningful impact on statistical rigour. Methods Here, we evaluated the prevalence of this type of statistical error among neuroscience studies involving animal models of Fragile-X Syndrome (FXS) and those using animal models of neurological disorders at large published between 2001 and 2024. …”
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Lessons learned from qualitative fieldwork in a multilingual setting by Shweta Jain Verma

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Finding the balance between rigour and relevance: implementing adaptations to the implementation of a pragmatic randomised controlled trial of a two-way texting intervention for voluntary medical male circumcision in South Africa by Caryl Feldacker, Geoffrey Setswe, Sarah Day, Felex Ndebele, Jacqueline Pienaar, Vuyolwethu Ncube

“…The 2wT pRCT balances rigour (fidelity) and relevance (adaptation). Adaptations should not be confined by rigour but should also not go unchallenged or unverified. …”
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BJPsych Open: celebrating 10 years of publishing excellence: a decade in review by Kenneth R. Kaufman

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Psychotherapy and Counselling in Australia: Profiling Our Philosophical Heritage for Therapeutic Effectiveness by Elizabeth Day

“…The predominance of the therapeutic relationship as a factor in therapeutic effectiveness calls for greater rigour in the understanding of how that relationship works. …”
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Imposter Participants? Towards a Reflexive Epistemology of ‘Suspected Participants’ by Jaime Garcia-Iglesias, Brian Heaphy, Neta Yodovich, Sophie Atherton, Azeem Merchant

“…We argue for a reflexive epistemology that questions normative assumptions about authentic participation and advocate an inclusive but separate analysis of suspect data as an interpretive tool that can enhance rigour, rather than rejecting such data as a problem that needs ‘screening out’.…”
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The Controversy about Probabilism and the Disagreement about its Use in the Society of Jesus Throughout the Study of Two Authors: Father Pedro de Calatayud (1689-1773) and Father J... by Francisco Luis RICO CALLADO

“…The presence of a trend in defence of moral rigour in the practice of confession can be traced among Spanish Jesuits, especially in the case of some of the major figures of Jesuit missionary activity in the eighteenth century: Father Jerónimo Dutari and Father Pedro de Calatayud. …”
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Journals Operating Predatory Practices Are Systematically Eroding the Science Ethos: A Gate and Code Strategy to Minimise Their Operating Space and Restore Research Best Practice by Kenneth Timmis, Paul Williams, Zeynep Ceren Karahan, Purificación López‐García, Paul Rainey, Max Chavarria, Chris Greening, Karen Steward, John E. Hallsworth, Cristina Silva Pereira, Rafael Giraldo, Willy Verstraete, Stipan Jonjić, Juan Luis Ramos, Olga Nunes, Antonio Ventosa, Rachel Armstrong, Angela Sessitsch, Eliora Ron, Hui Wang

“…Research is only as good as its degree of rigour. Rigour comes through intensive and comprehensive scientific training and mentoring that teaches critical and agnostic evaluation of new results, self‐scrutiny and self‐criticism. …”
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Conducting experimental research in audiovisual translation (AVT): A position paper by Pilar Orero, Stephen Doherty, Jan-Louis Kruger Kruger, Anna Matamala, Jan Pedersen, Elisa Perego, Pablo Sara Rovira-Esteva Romero-Fresco

“…However, these methodologies are often not implemented with the same rigour as in the disciplines from which they were taken, making for highly eclectic and, at times, inconsistent practices. …”
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The intersection between logical empiricism and qualitative nursing research: a post-structuralist analysis by Martin Salzmann-Erikson

“…Results The article focusing on the “what abouts” of sample size, analytic framework, data source, data analysis, and rigour and methodological considerations, challenging the predominance of semi-structured interviews and the reliance on spoken voice as primary data sources, and re-evaluating the conventional notion of “rigour”. …”
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The reliance on conceptual frameworks in qualitative research – a way forward by Joanna E. M. Sale, Leslie Carlin

“…; and (3) How can we practice and teach rigour while integrating conceptual frameworks in qualitative research? …”
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Book Review: From Rome to Las Vegas. Reconstructions of Ancient Roman Architecture by Anita Rieche by Wulf Hein

“…People enjoy being surrounded by fully realised reconstructions of ancient ruins where they can be taught in a manner reflecting a museum-like academic rigour.…”
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Quality assessment of clinical practice guidelines and consensuses for fungal diseases in China from 2023 to 2024: a study based on the AGREEⅡ by Xiaopan WANG, Mengya SHANG, Wenjie FANG, Mingwei DU, Xinlin ZHU, Qi YIN, Xiaogang LIU, Weihua PAN, Yinuo LIU, Wanqing LIAO

“…Failure to document and disclose conflicts of interest among guideline development group members in terms of independence was a significant factor for score deduction.The guidelines/consensuses in 2024 were superior to those in 2023 in terms of rigour (P < 0.05). Conclusion The methodological quality of fungal disease guidelines and expert consensuses regarding participants, rigour, applicability, and independence needs to be further improved, and the guideline development needs to be in strict accordance with AGREEⅡ requirements to clarify conflicts of interest.…”
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