Towards ARTEM-IS: Design Guidelines for evidencebased EEG methodology reporting tools

Abstract

As the number of EEG papers increases, so too do the number of guidelines for how to report what has been done. However, current guidelines and checklists appear to have limited adoption, as systematic reviews have shown the journal article format is highly prone to errors, ambiguities and omissions of methodological details. This is a problem for transparency in the scientific record, along with reproducibility, replicability and meta-science. Following lessons learned in the high complexity fields of aviation and surgery, we conclude that new tools are needed to overcome the limitations of current prose methodology descriptions, and that these tools should be developed through community consultation to ensure that they have the best utility for EEG stakeholders. We discuss key features that can support adoption of such tools, and as a first step, we present the ARTEM-IS Statement describing what action will be needed to create an Agreed Reporting Template for EEG Methodology - International Standard (ARTEM-IS). We first launched the statement at the LiveMEEG conference in 2020 along with an evidence-based draft of an ARTEM-IS template for public consultation. Members of the EEG community are invited to join this collective effort to create evidence-based tools that will help make the process of reporting methodology EEG easier, faster and un-get-wrong-able.