Standards in semen examination: publishing reproducible and reliable data based on high-quality methodology

Lars Björndahl (1) , Christopher Barratt (2) , David Mortimer (3) , Ashok Agarwal (4) , Robert Aitken (5) , Juan Alvarez (6) , Natalie Aneck-Hahn (7) , Stefan Arver (1) , Elisabetta Baldi (8) , Lluís Bassas (9) , Florence Boitrelle (10, 11) , Riana Bornman (12) , Douglas Carrell (13) , José Castilla (14) , Gerardo Cerezo Parra , Jerome Check , Patricia Cuasnicu (15) , Sally Perreault Darney (16) , Christiaan de Jager (12) , Christopher de Jonge (17) , Joël Drevet (18) , Erma Drobnis (19) , Stefan Du Plessis (20) , Michael Eisenberg (21) , Sandro Esteves (22, 23) , Evangelini Evgeni (24) , Alberto Ferlin (25) , Nicolas Garrido , Aleksander Giwercman (26) , Ilse Goovaerts (27) , Trine Haugen (28) , Ralf Henkel (29, 30) , Lars Henningsohn (31) , Marie-Claude Hofmann (32) , James Hotaling (13) , Piotr Jedrzejczak (33) , Pierre Jouannet (34) , Niels Jørgensen (35) , Jackson Kirkman Brown (36, 37) , Csilla Krausz (38) , Maciej Kurpisz , Ulrik Kvist (1) , Dolores Lamb (39) , Hagai Levine (40) , Kate Loveland (41) , Robert Mclachlan (41) , Ali Mahran (42) , Liana Maree (30) , Sarah Martins da Silva (2) , Michael Mbizvo , Andreas Meinhardt (43) , Roelof Menkveld (44) , Sharon Mortimer (45) , Sergey Moskovtsev (46) , Charles Muller , Maria José Munuce (47) , Monica Muratori (38) , Craig Niederberger , Cristian O’flaherty (48) , Rafael Oliva (49, 50) , Willem Ombelet (51) , Allan Pacey (52) , Michael Palladino , Ranjith Ramasamy (53) , Liliana Ramos , Nathalie Rives (54, 55, 56) , Eduardo Rs Roldan (57) , Susan Rothmann , Denny Sakkas , Andrea Salonia (58) , Maria Cristina Sánchez-Pozo (59) , Rosanna Sapiro , Stefan Schlatt , Peter Schlegel (39) , Hans-Christian Schuppe (60) , Rupin Shah (61) , Niels Skakkebæk (35) , Katja Teerds (62) , Igor Toskin , Herman Tournaye , Paul Turek , Gerhard van der Horst (30, 44) , Monica Vazquez-Levin (15) , Christina Wang (63, 64) , Alex Wetzels (65) , Theodosia Zeginiadou (66) , Armand Zini (48)

1 Karolinska University Hospital [Stockholm]
2 Ninewells Hospital and Medical School [Dundee]
3 Oozoa Biomedical Inc
4 Case Western Reserve University [Cleveland]
5 UoN - University of Newcastle [Callaghan, Australia]
6 HMS - Harvard Medical School [Boston]
7 University of Pretoria [South Africa]
8 UniFI - Università degli Studi di Firenze = University of Florence = Université de Florence
9 Fundació Puigvert [Barcelona, Spain]
10 CHI Poissy-Saint-Germain
11 BREED - Biologie de la Reproduction, Environnement, Epigénétique & Développement
12 Faculty of Health Sciences [Pretoria]
13 University of Utah School of Medicine [Salt Lake City]
14 HUVN - Hospital Universitario Virgen de las Nieves [Granada, Spain]
15 IBYME - Instituto de Biología y Medicina Experimental [Buenos Aires]
16 EPA National Health and Environmental Effects Research Laboratory
17 University of Minnesota Medical School
18 GReD - Génétique, Reproduction et Développement
19 Mizzou - University of Missouri [Columbia]
20 MBRU - Mohammed Bin Rashid University of Medicine and Health Sciences
21 Stanford School of Medicine [Stanford]
22 UNICAMP - Universidade Estadual de Campinas = University of Campinas
23 Aarhus University [Aarhus]
24 DUTH - Democritus University of Thrace
25 Unipd - Università degli Studi di Padova = University of Padua
26 Lund University
27 UZA - Antwerp University Hospital [Edegem]
28 OsloMet - Oslo Metropolitan University
29 Imperial College London
30 UWC - University of the Western Cape
31 Karolinska Institutet [Stockholm]
32 The University of Texas M.D. Anderson Cancer Center [Houston]
33 PUMS - Poznan University of Medical Sciences [Poland]
34 Université Paris Descartes, Sorbonne Paris Cité
35 Copenhagen University Hospital
36 University of Birmingham [Birmingham]
37 Birmingham Women's and Children's NHS Foundation Trust
38 Dipartimento di Scienze Biomediche Sperimentali e Cliniche “Mario Serio”
39 Weill Cornell Medicine [Cornell University]
40 Hadassah Hebrew University Medical Center [Jerusalem]
41 Monash University [Clayton]
42 Assiut University
43 Justus-Liebig-Universität Giessen, Germany
44 Stellenbosch University
45 British Columbia
46 University of Toronto
47 Universidad Nacional de Rosario [Santa Fe]
48 McGill University = Université McGill [Montréal, Canada]
49 IDIBAPS - Institut d'Investigacions Biomèdiques August Pi i Sunyer
50 University of Barcelona
51 UHasselt - Hasselt University
52 University of Sheffield [Sheffield]
53 UMMSM - University of Miami Leonard M. Miller School of Medicine
54 CHU Rouen
55 UNIROUEN UFR Santé - UNIROUEN - UFR Santé
56 NorDic - Neuroendocrine, Endocrine and Germinal Differentiation Communication
57 NATIONAL MUSEUM OF NATURAL SCIENCE (CSIC) MADRID ESP
58 UniSR - Universita Vita Salute San Raffaele = Vita-Salute San Raffaele University [Milan, Italie]
59 Hospital Universitario Virgen del Rocío [Sevilla]
60 JLU - Justus-Liebig-Universität Gießen = Justus Liebig University
61 Lilavati Hospital and Research Centre
62 WUR - Wageningen University and Research [Wageningen]
63 Torrance - Lundquist Institute
64 Harbor UCLA Medical Center [Torrance, Ca.]
65 Radboud University Medical Center [Nijmegen]
66 University of Athens Medical School [Athens]

Abstract 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.

Domaines: Sciences du Vivant [q-bio]

Lars Björndahl, Christopher Barratt, David Mortimer, Ashok Agarwal, Robert Aitken, et al.. Standards in semen examination: publishing reproducible and reliable data based on high-quality methodology. Human Reproduction, 2022, 37 (11), pp.2497-2502. ⟨10.1093/humrep/deac189⟩. ⟨hal-04046378⟩