SPIRIT-CONSORT-TM: a corpus for assessing transparency of clinical trial protocol and results publications
Introduces an expert-annotated corpus of 200 trial publications and language-processing models for recognizing SPIRIT and CONSORT reporting items.
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- Shared code: Corpus and model code
- Shared code: Model training and evaluation code
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- Corpus and model code: The article links the project for its annotated corpus and for code/materials used to search, process and screen publications; the public inventory verifies corpus CSVs and Python code.
- Model training and evaluation code: The code availability text names this repository path for model training and evaluation; the GitHub tree includes the SPIRIT-CONSORT-TM code and datasets.
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Research themes
Research toolsReporting transparency
Author affiliations & identifiers
- Lan Jiang: University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, School of Information Sciences, Champaign, IL, 61820, USA. lanj3@illinois.edu. · ORCID 0009-0004-2764-0697
- Colby J Vorland: Indiana University, School of Public Health, Bloomington, IN, 47405, USA.
- Xiangji Ying: University of North Carolina Chapel Hill, Gillings School of Global Public Health, Chapel Hill, NC, 27599, USA.
- Andrew W Brown: University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences, Little Rock, AR, 72205, USA.; Arkansas Children's Research Institute, Little Rock, AR, 72202, USA. · ORCID 0000-0002-1758-8205
- Joe D Menke: University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, School of Information Sciences, Champaign, IL, 61820, USA.
- Gibong Hong: University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, School of Information Sciences, Champaign, IL, 61820, USA.
- Mengfei Lan: University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, School of Information Sciences, Champaign, IL, 61820, USA.
- Evan Mayo-Wilson: University of North Carolina Chapel Hill, Gillings School of Global Public Health, Chapel Hill, NC, 27599, USA.
- Halil Kilicoglu: University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, School of Information Sciences, Champaign, IL, 61820, USA. halil@illinois.edu. · ORCID 0000-0003-3987-9393
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SPIRIT-CONSORT-TM: a corpus for assessing transparency of clinical trial protocol and results publications
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- CV abbreviates the ordered author list with ellipses; replace with complete authoritative list before displaying full authors.
- The CV includes only the preprint citation for SPIRIT-CONSORT-TM; a 2025 Scientific Data final publication exists, DOI 10.1038/s41597-025-04629-1.
- The published article uses OpenAlex W4408043045, verified by exact DOI on 12 September 2026. W4406420200 refers to the earlier preprint.