Standards in semen examination: publishing reproducible and reliable data based on high-quality methodology.
Lars BjörndahlChristopher L R BarrattDavid MortimerAshok AgarwalRobert John AitkenJuan G AlvarezNatalie Aneck-HahnStefan ArverElisabetta BaldiLluís BassasFlorence BoitrelleM S Riana BornmanDouglas T CarrellJose Antonio CastillaGerardo Cerezo ParraJerome H CheckPatricia Sara CuasnicúSally Perreault DarneyChristiaan de JagerChristopher J De JongeJoël R DrevetErma Z DrobnisStephan S du PlessisMichael L EisenbergSandro C EstevesEvangelini A EvgeniAlberto FerlinNicolás GarridoAleksander GiwercmanIlse G F GoovaertsTrine B HaugenRalf Reinhold HenkelLars HenningsohnMarie Claude HofmannJames M HotalingPiotr JedrzejczakPierre JouannetNiels JørgensenJackson C Kirkman BrownCsilla KrauszMaciej K KurpiszUlrik KvistDolores J LambHagai LevineKate L LovelandRobert I McLachlanAli M MahranLiana MareeSarah Martins Da SilvaMichael T MbizvoAndreas MeinhardtRoelof MenkveldSharon T MortimerSergey MoskovtsevCharles H MullerMaria José MunuceMonica MuratoriCraig NiederbergerChristian O'FlahertyRafael OlivaWillem OmbeletAllan A PaceyMichael A PalladinoRanjith RamasamyLiliana RamosNathalie RivesEduardo R S RoldanSusan RothmannDenny SakkasAlessia d'ArmaMaria Cristina Sánchez-PozoRosanna SapiroStefan SchlattPeter N SchlegelHans-Christian SchuppeRupin ShahNiels E SkakkebaekKatja J TeerdsIgor ToskinHerman TournayePaul J TurekGerhard van der HorstMónica Hebe Vazquez-LevinChristina WangAlex M M WetzelsTheodosia ZeginiadouArmand ZiniPublished in: Human reproduction (Oxford, England) (2022)
Biomedical science is rapidly developing in terms of more transparency, openness and reproducibility of scientific publications. This is even more important for all studies that are based on results from basic semen examination. Recently two concordant documents have been published: the 6th edition of the WHO Laboratory Manual for the Examination and Processing of Human Semen, and the International Standard ISO 23162:2021. With these tools, we propose that authors should be instructed to follow these laboratory methods in order to publish studies in peer-reviewed journals, preferable by using a checklist as suggested in an Appendix to this article.