PhD Project: Reporting guidelines in Biomedicine In 2019 when I joined the DZHW to investigate the roles and functions of review articles in science, I quickly stumbled over the phenomenon called “reporting guidelines” that has become very prominent in the biomedical sciences. In short, reporting guidelines are standards that provide rules and checklists for writing scientific publications. The reason for these guidelines to exist was a growing unease with how scientists report their findings since the late 1980s.