{
  "schema_version": "2.0",
  "reviewed_on": "2026-07-23",
  "notice": "This catalog supports reporting-guideline selection only. Verify the official source, applicable extensions, and target venue policy. Checklist coverage is not a quality or merit score.",
  "guidelines": [
    {
      "id": "ARRIVE-2.0",
      "name": "ARRIVE",
      "version": "2.0 (2020)",
      "status": "current",
      "category": "reporting_guideline",
      "study_types": [
        "animal_in_vivo"
      ],
      "report_kinds": [
        "results"
      ],
      "required_features": [],
      "domains": [
        "all"
      ],
      "main_item_count": 21,
      "url": "https://arriveguidelines.org/arrive-guidelines",
      "notes": "Use Essential 10 and Recommended Set; reporting supports appraisal but does not by itself establish rigor."
    },
    {
      "id": "CARE-2013",
      "name": "CARE",
      "version": "2013 checklist; 2017 explanation",
      "status": "current",
      "category": "reporting_guideline",
      "study_types": [
        "case_report"
      ],
      "report_kinds": [
        "results"
      ],
      "required_features": [],
      "domains": [
        "health"
      ],
      "main_item_count": 13,
      "url": "https://www.care-statement.org/checklist",
      "notes": "Confirm informed consent and privacy requirements with the target venue and applicable law."
    },
    {
      "id": "CHEERS-2022",
      "name": "CHEERS",
      "version": "2022",
      "status": "current",
      "category": "reporting_guideline",
      "study_types": [
        "economic_evaluation"
      ],
      "report_kinds": [
        "results"
      ],
      "required_features": [],
      "domains": [
        "health"
      ],
      "main_item_count": 28,
      "url": "https://www.ispor.org/heor-resources/good-practices/cheers",
      "notes": "For economic evaluations of health interventions; use the explanation and elaboration."
    },
    {
      "id": "CONSORT-2025",
      "name": "CONSORT",
      "version": "2025",
      "status": "current",
      "category": "reporting_guideline",
      "study_types": [
        "randomized_trial"
      ],
      "report_kinds": [
        "results"
      ],
      "required_features": [],
      "domains": [
        "health",
        "all"
      ],
      "main_item_count": 30,
      "url": "https://www.consort-spirit.org/",
      "notes": "Supersedes CONSORT 2010. Check design-specific extensions; CONSORT is not a quality assessment instrument."
    },
    {
      "id": "CONSORT-AI-2020",
      "name": "CONSORT-AI",
      "version": "2020 extension",
      "status": "current",
      "category": "reporting_guideline",
      "study_types": [
        "randomized_trial"
      ],
      "report_kinds": [
        "results"
      ],
      "required_features": [
        "ai_intervention"
      ],
      "domains": [
        "health"
      ],
      "main_item_count": null,
      "url": "https://www.equator-network.org/reporting-guidelines/consort-artificial-intelligence/",
      "notes": "Use with CONSORT 2025 for randomized trials evaluating an AI intervention; verify whether updated extension guidance applies."
    },
    {
      "id": "COREQ-2007",
      "name": "COREQ",
      "version": "2007",
      "status": "current",
      "category": "reporting_guideline",
      "study_types": [
        "qualitative_interview",
        "qualitative_focus_group"
      ],
      "report_kinds": [
        "results"
      ],
      "required_features": [],
      "domains": [
        "health"
      ],
      "main_item_count": 32,
      "url": "https://www.equator-network.org/reporting-guidelines/coreq/",
      "notes": "For interviews and focus groups; consider SRQR for broader qualitative study designs."
    },
    {
      "id": "PRISMA-2020",
      "name": "PRISMA",
      "version": "2020 (published 2021)",
      "status": "current",
      "category": "reporting_guideline",
      "study_types": [
        "systematic_review"
      ],
      "report_kinds": [
        "results"
      ],
      "required_features": [],
      "domains": [
        "all"
      ],
      "main_item_count": 27,
      "url": "https://www.prisma-statement.org/prisma-2020",
      "notes": "Use the relevant extension for scoping, diagnostic, individual-participant-data, or other review types. PRISMA does not assess methodological quality."
    },
    {
      "id": "PRISMA-P-2015",
      "name": "PRISMA-P",
      "version": "2015",
      "status": "current",
      "category": "reporting_guideline",
      "study_types": [
        "systematic_review"
      ],
      "report_kinds": [
        "protocol"
      ],
      "required_features": [],
      "domains": [
        "all"
      ],
      "main_item_count": null,
      "url": "https://www.equator-network.org/reporting-guidelines/prisma-protocols/",
      "notes": "Use for systematic review protocols rather than completed review reports."
    },
    {
      "id": "SPIRIT-2025",
      "name": "SPIRIT",
      "version": "2025",
      "status": "current",
      "category": "reporting_guideline",
      "study_types": [
        "randomized_trial"
      ],
      "report_kinds": [
        "protocol"
      ],
      "required_features": [],
      "domains": [
        "health",
        "all"
      ],
      "main_item_count": 34,
      "url": "https://www.consort-spirit.org/",
      "notes": "Supersedes SPIRIT 2013. Compare protocol, registry, statistical analysis plan, amendments, and final report for consistency."
    },
    {
      "id": "SQUIRE-2.0",
      "name": "SQUIRE",
      "version": "2.0 (2015)",
      "status": "current",
      "category": "reporting_guideline",
      "study_types": [
        "quality_improvement"
      ],
      "report_kinds": [
        "results"
      ],
      "required_features": [],
      "domains": [
        "health"
      ],
      "main_item_count": 18,
      "url": "https://www.squire-statement.org/index.cfm?fuseaction=page.viewPage&pageID=471&nodeID=1",
      "notes": "For system-level work to improve healthcare; not every element is applicable to every manuscript."
    },
    {
      "id": "SRQR-2014",
      "name": "SRQR",
      "version": "2014",
      "status": "current",
      "category": "reporting_guideline",
      "study_types": [
        "qualitative_study"
      ],
      "report_kinds": [
        "results"
      ],
      "required_features": [],
      "domains": [
        "health"
      ],
      "main_item_count": 21,
      "url": "https://www.equator-network.org/reporting-guidelines/srqr",
      "notes": "Broad qualitative reporting standard; choose COREQ when interviews or focus groups are the primary methods."
    },
    {
      "id": "STARD-2015",
      "name": "STARD",
      "version": "2015",
      "status": "current",
      "category": "reporting_guideline",
      "study_types": [
        "diagnostic_accuracy"
      ],
      "report_kinds": [
        "results"
      ],
      "required_features": [],
      "domains": [
        "health"
      ],
      "main_item_count": 30,
      "url": "https://www.equator-network.org/reporting-guidelines/stard/",
      "notes": "For diagnostic accuracy studies. Use a separate risk-of-bias tool for design/conduct appraisal."
    },
    {
      "id": "STARD-AI-2025",
      "name": "STARD-AI",
      "version": "2025",
      "status": "current",
      "category": "reporting_guideline",
      "study_types": [
        "diagnostic_accuracy"
      ],
      "report_kinds": [
        "results"
      ],
      "required_features": [
        "ai_based"
      ],
      "domains": [
        "health"
      ],
      "main_item_count": 40,
      "url": "https://www.nature.com/articles/s41591-025-03953-8",
      "notes": "Use for AI-centered diagnostic accuracy studies and alongside the applicable base and modality guidance."
    },
    {
      "id": "STROBE-2007",
      "name": "STROBE",
      "version": "2007",
      "status": "current",
      "category": "reporting_guideline",
      "study_types": [
        "observational_study",
        "cohort_study",
        "case_control_study",
        "cross_sectional_study"
      ],
      "report_kinds": [
        "results"
      ],
      "required_features": [],
      "domains": [
        "health"
      ],
      "main_item_count": 22,
      "url": "https://www.strobe-statement.org/",
      "notes": "Select the design-specific checklist and applicable extensions such as RECORD, STREGA, or STROBE-MR."
    },
    {
      "id": "TRIPOD-AI-2024",
      "name": "TRIPOD+AI",
      "version": "2024",
      "status": "current",
      "category": "reporting_guideline",
      "study_types": [
        "prediction_model"
      ],
      "report_kinds": [
        "results"
      ],
      "required_features": [],
      "domains": [
        "health"
      ],
      "main_item_count": 27,
      "url": "https://www.tripod-statement.org/",
      "notes": "Replaces TRIPOD 2015 and applies to regression or machine-learning model development and performance evaluation."
    },
    {
      "id": "TRIPOD-LLM-2025",
      "name": "TRIPOD-LLM",
      "version": "2025",
      "status": "current",
      "category": "reporting_guideline",
      "study_types": [
        "prediction_model"
      ],
      "report_kinds": [
        "results"
      ],
      "required_features": [
        "large_language_model"
      ],
      "domains": [
        "health"
      ],
      "main_item_count": 19,
      "url": "https://www.equator-network.org/reporting-guidelines/the-tripod-llm-reporting-guideline-for-studies-using-large-language-models/",
      "notes": "Use with TRIPOD+AI for studies of large language models in biomedicine and healthcare."
    },
    {
      "id": "MIAME-2001",
      "name": "MIAME",
      "version": "2001 content standard; repository guidance current",
      "status": "legacy_current_qualified",
      "category": "domain_metadata_standard",
      "study_types": [
        "microarray"
      ],
      "report_kinds": [
        "results",
        "data_release"
      ],
      "required_features": [],
      "domains": [
        "functional_genomics"
      ],
      "main_item_count": null,
      "url": "https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/geo/info/MIAME.html",
      "notes": "Retained because GEO and ArrayExpress still implement it; verify current repository submission fields."
    },
    {
      "id": "MIAPE-CURRENT",
      "name": "MIAPE",
      "version": "modular released components",
      "status": "legacy_current_qualified",
      "category": "domain_metadata_standard",
      "study_types": [
        "proteomics"
      ],
      "report_kinds": [
        "results",
        "data_release"
      ],
      "required_features": [],
      "domains": [
        "proteomics"
      ],
      "main_item_count": null,
      "url": "https://www.psidev.info/miape",
      "notes": "Select the current PSI component for the actual workflow; MIAPE is modular, not one universal checklist."
    },
    {
      "id": "MIAPPE-1.2",
      "name": "MIAPPE",
      "version": "1.2 (October 2024)",
      "status": "current",
      "category": "domain_metadata_standard",
      "study_types": [
        "plant_phenotyping"
      ],
      "report_kinds": [
        "results",
        "data_release"
      ],
      "required_features": [],
      "domains": [
        "plant_science"
      ],
      "main_item_count": null,
      "url": "https://www.miappe.org/releases",
      "notes": "Use version 1.2; version 2.0 was still under early development at the review date."
    },
    {
      "id": "MIFlowCyt-1.0",
      "name": "MIFlowCyt",
      "version": "1.0; ISAC recommendation current",
      "status": "legacy_current_qualified",
      "category": "domain_metadata_standard",
      "study_types": [
        "flow_cytometry"
      ],
      "report_kinds": [
        "results",
        "data_release"
      ],
      "required_features": [],
      "domains": [
        "cytometry"
      ],
      "main_item_count": null,
      "url": "https://isac-net.org/miflowcyt-2/",
      "notes": "Retained as an active ISAC recommendation; also verify FCS, gating, and repository requirements."
    },
    {
      "id": "MINSEQE-CURRENT",
      "name": "MINSEQE",
      "version": "repository guidance current",
      "status": "legacy_current_qualified",
      "category": "domain_metadata_standard",
      "study_types": [
        "high_throughput_sequencing"
      ],
      "report_kinds": [
        "results",
        "data_release"
      ],
      "required_features": [],
      "domains": [
        "functional_genomics"
      ],
      "main_item_count": null,
      "url": "https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/geo/info/MIAME.html",
      "notes": "Retained because GEO and ArrayExpress still implement it; verify platform-specific repository requirements."
    },
    {
      "id": "MIxS-CURRENT",
      "name": "MIxS",
      "version": "current GSC release",
      "status": "current",
      "category": "domain_metadata_standard",
      "study_types": [
        "genome_sequence",
        "metagenome_sequence"
      ],
      "report_kinds": [
        "results",
        "data_release"
      ],
      "required_features": [],
      "domains": [
        "genomics"
      ],
      "main_item_count": null,
      "url": "https://www.gensc.org/pages/standards-intro.html",
      "notes": "Use MIxS as the current umbrella; MIGS and MIMS are legacy checklists within the MIxS framework."
    }
  ]
}