Findings Persuade. Provenance Publishes.

A rejected paper is rarely a rejected idea.

It is usually a dataset that cannot say who was eligible, when each observation was made, what consent was held, and what went missing. The findings may be real. But without provenance the reviewer cannot know that, and is right to say so.

Provenance is the difference between numbers a journal accepts and numbers only the author can vouch for. This part is about the record beneath the result.

The audit trail is the argument.

Continue reading — Part 2 of 4

Findings Persuade. Provenance Publishes.

Part 2 of a four-part series on turning routine care into published proof — why the audit trail behind your data determines whether a journal accepts the numbers, and how capturing provenance at the point of care makes every record defensible by default. Share your email to read the full piece.