2025 June 17
Evolving the preprint evaluation world with Sciety
This post is based on an interview with Sciety team at eLife.
Crossmark can be used to display the relationships between different publications that report on a common clinical trial. This section describes the steps a member needs to take to participate in this initiative. Learn more about the background to the project.
Clinical trial numbers should be extracted from the paper by the publisher or supplied by the author on submission.
There are three elements to the metadata that members need to deposit to participate in linked clinical trials:
These fields should be included within the custom metadata section of the Crossmark deposit. When clinical trial metadata is deposited, the Clinical Trials section of the Crossmark box will automatically appear and be populated.
<clinicaltrial_data>
<doi>10.5555/12345678</doi>
<ct:program>
<ct:clinical-trial-number registry="10.18810/isrctn" type="results">ISRCTN1234</ct:clinical-trial-number>
<ct:clinical-trial-number registry="10.18810/isrctn" type="results">ISRCTN9999</ct:clinical-trial-number>
</ct:program>
</clinicaltrial_data>