Standards in semen examination: publishing reproducible and reliable data based on high-quality methodology

Lars Björndahl; Christopher L R Barratt; David Mortimer; Ashok Agarwal; Robert J Aitken; Juan G Alvarez; Natalie Aneck-Hahn; Stefan Arver; Elisabetta Baldi; Lluís Bassas; Florence Boitrelle; Riana Bornman; Douglas T Carrell; José A Castilla; Gerardo Cerezo Parra; Jerome H Check; Patricia S Cuasnicu; Sally Perreault Darney; Christiaan de Jager; Christopher J De Jonge; Joël R Drevet; Erma Z Drobnis; Stefan S Du Plessis; Michael L Eisenberg; Sandro C Esteves; Evangelini A Evgeni; Alberto Ferlin; Nicolas Garrido; Aleksander Giwercman; Ilse G F Goovaerts; Trine B Haugen; Ralf Henkel; Lars Henningsohn; Marie-Claude Hofmann; James M Hotaling; Piotr Jedrzejczak; Pierre Jouannet; Niels Jørgensen; Jackson C Kirkman Brown; Csilla Krausz; Maciej Kurpisz; Ulrik Kvist; Dolores J Lamb; Hagai Levine; Kate L Loveland; Robert I McLachlan; Ali Mahran; Liana Maree; Sarah Martins da Silva; Michael T Mbizvo; Andreas Meinhardt; Roelof Menkveld; Sharon T Mortimer; Sergey Moskovtsev; Charles H Muller; Maria José Munuce; Monica Muratori; Craig Niederberger; Cristian O'Flaherty; Rafael Oliva; Willem Ombelet; Allan A Pacey; Michael A Palladino; Ranjith Ramasamy; Liliana Ramos; Nathalie Rives; Eduardo Rs Roldan; Susan Rothmann; Denny Sakkas; Andrea Salonia; Maria Cristina Sánchez-Pozo; Rosanna Sapiro; Stefan Schlatt; Peter N Schlegel; Hans-Christian Schuppe; Rupin Shah; Niels E Skakkebæk; Katja Teerds; Igor Toskin; Herman Tournaye; Paul J Turek; Gerhard van der Horst; Monica Vazquez-Levin; Christina Wang; Alex Wetzels; Theodosia Zeginiadou; Armand Zini

doi:10.1093/humrep/deac189

Standards in semen examination: publishing reproducible and reliable data based on high-quality methodology

Lars Björndahl^*, Christopher L R Barratt, David Mortimer, Ashok Agarwal, Robert J Aitken, Juan G Alvarez, Natalie Aneck-Hahn, Stefan Arver, Elisabetta Baldi, Lluís Bassas, Florence Boitrelle, Riana Bornman, Douglas T Carrell, José A Castilla, Gerardo Cerezo Parra, Jerome H Check, Patricia S Cuasnicu, Sally Perreault Darney, Christiaan de Jager, Christopher J De JongeJoël R Drevet, Erma Z Drobnis, Stefan S Du Plessis, Michael L Eisenberg, Sandro C Esteves, Evangelini A Evgeni, Alberto Ferlin, Nicolas Garrido, Aleksander Giwercman, Ilse G F Goovaerts, Trine B Haugen, Ralf Henkel, Lars Henningsohn, Marie-Claude Hofmann, James M Hotaling, Piotr Jedrzejczak, Pierre Jouannet, Niels Jørgensen, Jackson C Kirkman Brown, Csilla Krausz, Maciej Kurpisz, Ulrik Kvist, Dolores J Lamb, Hagai Levine, Kate L Loveland, Robert I McLachlan, Ali Mahran, Liana Maree, Sarah Martins da Silva, Michael T Mbizvo, Andreas Meinhardt, Roelof Menkveld, Sharon T Mortimer, Sergey Moskovtsev, Charles H Muller, Maria José Munuce, Monica Muratori, Craig Niederberger, Cristian O'Flaherty, Rafael Oliva, Willem Ombelet, Allan A Pacey, Michael A Palladino, Ranjith Ramasamy, Liliana Ramos, Nathalie Rives, Eduardo Rs Roldan, Susan Rothmann, Denny Sakkas, Andrea Salonia, Maria Cristina Sánchez-Pozo, Rosanna Sapiro, Stefan Schlatt, Peter N Schlegel, Hans-Christian Schuppe, Rupin Shah, Niels E Skakkebæk, Katja Teerds, Igor Toskin, Herman Tournaye, Paul J Turek, Gerhard van der Horst, Monica Vazquez-Levin, Christina Wang, Alex Wetzels, Theodosia Zeginiadou, Armand Zini

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Abstract

Biomedical science is rapidly developing in terms of more transparency, openness and reproducibility of scientific publications. This is even more important for all studies that are based on results from basic semen examination. Recently two concordant documents have been published: the 6th edition of the WHO Laboratory Manual for the Examination and Processing of Human Semen, and the International Standard ISO 23162:2021. With these tools, we propose that authors should be instructed to follow these laboratory methods in order to publish studies in peer-reviewed journals, preferable by using a checklist as suggested in an Appendix to this article.

Original language	English
Journal	Human reproduction (Oxford, England)
Volume	37
Issue number	11
Pages (from-to)	2497-2502
Number of pages	6
ISSN	0268-1161
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1093/humrep/deac189
Publication status	Published - 31 Oct 2022

Keywords

Humans
Peer Review
Publishing
Reproducibility of Results
Semen
Semen Analysis/methods
quality control
reproducibility
standardized laboratory procedures
science development
basic semen examination
patient security
journal requirements
laboratory training
reproductive medicine
andrology

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Björndahl, L., Barratt, C. L. R., Mortimer, D., Agarwal, A., Aitken, R. J., Alvarez, J. G., Aneck-Hahn, N., Arver, S., Baldi, E., Bassas, L., Boitrelle, F., Bornman, R., Carrell, D. T., Castilla, J. A., Cerezo Parra, G., Check, J. H., Cuasnicu, P. S., Darney, S. P., de Jager, C., ... Zini, A. (2022). Standards in semen examination: publishing reproducible and reliable data based on high-quality methodology. Human reproduction (Oxford, England), 37(11), 2497-2502. https://doi.org/10.1093/humrep/deac189

Björndahl, L, Barratt, CLR, Mortimer, D, Agarwal, A, Aitken, RJ, Alvarez, JG, Aneck-Hahn, N, Arver, S, Baldi, E, Bassas, L, Boitrelle, F, Bornman, R, Carrell, DT, Castilla, JA, Cerezo Parra, G, Check, JH, Cuasnicu, PS, Darney, SP, de Jager, C, De Jonge, CJ, Drevet, JR, Drobnis, EZ, Du Plessis, SS, Eisenberg, ML, Esteves, SC, Evgeni, EA, Ferlin, A, Garrido, N, Giwercman, A, Goovaerts, IGF, Haugen, TB, Henkel, R, Henningsohn, L, Hofmann, M-C, Hotaling, JM, Jedrzejczak, P, Jouannet, P, Jørgensen, N, Kirkman Brown, JC, Krausz, C, Kurpisz, M, Kvist, U, Lamb, DJ, Levine, H, Loveland, KL, McLachlan, RI, Mahran, A, Maree, L, Martins da Silva, S, Mbizvo, MT, Meinhardt, A, Menkveld, R, Mortimer, ST, Moskovtsev, S, Muller, CH, Munuce, MJ, Muratori, M, Niederberger, C, O'Flaherty, C, Oliva, R, Ombelet, W, Pacey, AA, Palladino, MA, Ramasamy, R, Ramos, L, Rives, N, Roldan, ER, Rothmann, S, Sakkas, D, Salonia, A, Sánchez-Pozo, MC, Sapiro, R, Schlatt, S, Schlegel, PN, Schuppe, H-C, Shah, R, Skakkebæk, NE, Teerds, K, Toskin, I, Tournaye, H, Turek, PJ, van der Horst, G, Vazquez-Levin, M, Wang, C, Wetzels, A, Zeginiadou, T & Zini, A 2022, 'Standards in semen examination: publishing reproducible and reliable data based on high-quality methodology', Human reproduction (Oxford, England), vol. 37, no. 11, pp. 2497-2502. https://doi.org/10.1093/humrep/deac189

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