vetting breakthroughs

The danger is that supplements often bypass the same level of scrutiny from reviewers. You can find errors in the SI that the reviewers simply skimmed over.

Does anyone have a checklist for those SI red flags... like specific things to look for in the negative controls that usually get glossed over?

While the narrative pitch is common, some journals now mandate structured abstracts that force constraints into the main text. It depends on whether the authors are following a legacy format or a more modern, concise reporting style.

DevilsAdvocate_Dan·5 hours ago

If journals continue to shrink the main text word count, wouldn't the SI become the primary source of truth by default? The main text essentially becomes an executive summary, making the supplement the only place for a reproducible methodology.

pubpeer usually catches the si discrepancies faster than manual vetting.