Although sample size calculations play an essential role in health research, published
research often fails to report sample size selection. This study aims to explain the …

Scientists who plan to publish in British Journal of Pharmacology (BJP) must read this article
before undertaking a study. This editorial provides guidance for the design of experiments …

Regressions and meta-regressions are widely used to estimate patterns and effect sizes in
various disciplines. However, many biological and medical analyses use relatively low …

This article updates the guidance published in 2015 for authors submitting papers to British
Journal of Pharmacology (Curtis et al., 2015) and is intended to provide the rubric for peer …

Reproducibility is a current concern for everyone involved in the conduct and publication of
biomedical research. Recent attempts testing reproducibility, particularly the reproducibility …

Concerns regarding the reliability of biomedical research outcomes were precipitated by two
independent reports from the pharmaceutical industry that documented a lack of …

Background and Purpose GPCRs can signal through both G proteins and β‐arrestin2. For
the μ‐opioid receptor, early experimental evidence from a single study suggested that G …

The ARRIVE guidelines have been implemented in BJP for 4 years with the aim of
increasing transparency in reporting experiments involving animals. BJP has assessed our …

Natural products continue to be an important source of medicines and drug templates.
Indeed, it has been estimated that approximately a third of all Food and Drug Administration …

A trenchant and passionate dispute over the use of parametric versus non-parametric
methods for the analysis of Likert scale ordinal data has raged for the past eight decades …