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Overview

Malcolm R. Macleod is affiliated with the University of Edinburgh in the United Kingdom. Their research primarily focuses on medicine, with significant contributions in subfields such as statistics, probability and uncertainty, small animals, neurology, public health, environmental and occupational health, and molecular biology.

The scientist has been involved in multiple main research topics, including meta-analysis and systematic reviews, animal testing and alternatives, acute ischemic stroke management, ethics in clinical research, health and medical research impacts, cell image analysis techniques, and amyotrophic lateral sclerosis research.

Some of the recent papers associated with this researcher include:

  • The ARRIVE guidelines 2.0: Updated guidelines for reporting animal research, 2020, published in PLoS Biology
  • The ARRIVE guidelines 2.0: Updated guidelines for reporting animal research, 2020, published in Experimental Physiology
  • Reporting animal research: Explanation and elaboration for the ARRIVE guidelines 2.0, 2020, published in PLoS Biology
  • Neurological and neuropsychiatric complications of COVID-19 in 153 patients: a UK-wide surveillance study, 2020, published in The Lancet Psychiatry
  • The ARRIVE guidelines 2.0: Updated guidelines for reporting animal research*, 2020, published in Journal of Cerebral Blood Flow & Metabolism

The researcher collaborates frequently with several co-authors, including:

  • Emily S. Sena
  • Georgia Salanti
  • Virginia Chiocchia
  • Ulrich Dirnagl
  • Jing Liao

Malcolm R. Macleod's work is published in various scientific venues, with recurrent appearances in:

  • Wellcome Open Research
  • BMJ Open Science
  • F1000Research
  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • PLoS Biology

Best Publications

  • The ARRIVE guidelines 2.0: Updated guidelines for reporting animal research

    Nathalie Percie du Sert;Viki Hurst;Amrita Ahluwalia;Sabina Alam

  • Reporting animal research: Explanation and elaboration for the ARRIVE guidelines 2.0.

    Nathalie Percie du Sert;Amrita Ahluwalia;Sabina Alam;Marc T. Avey

  • Increasing value and reducing waste in research design, conduct, and analysis

    John P A Ioannidis;Sander Greenland;Mark A Hlatky;Muin J Khoury

  • 1,026 Experimental treatments in acute stroke

    Victoria E O'Collins;Malcolm R Macleod;Geoffrey A Donnan;Laura L Horky

  • Can Animal Models of Disease Reliably Inform Human Studies

    H Bart van der Worp;David W Howells;Emily S. Sena;Emily S. Sena;Michelle J. Porritt

  • Neurological and neuropsychiatric complications of COVID-19 in 153 patients: a UK-wide surveillance study.

    Aravinthan Varatharaj;Aravinthan Varatharaj;Naomi Thomas;Mark A Ellul;Mark A Ellul;Mark A Ellul;Nicholas W S Davies

  • Incidence, prevalence, and predictors of chemotherapy-induced peripheral neuropathy: A systematic review and meta-analysis.

    Marta Seretny;Gillian L. Currie;Emily S. Sena;Sabrina Ramnarine

  • A call for transparent reporting to optimize the predictive value of preclinical research

    Story C. Landis;Susan G. Amara;Khusru Asadullah;Chris P. Austin

  • Biomedical research: increasing value, reducing waste

    Malcolm R. Macleod;Susan Michie;Ian Roberts;Ulrich Dirnagl

  • Comparison of treatment effects between animal experiments and clinical trials: systematic review

    Pablo Perel;Ian Roberts;Emily Sena;Philipa Wheble

  • Pooling of Animal Experimental Data Reveals Influence of Study Design and Publication Bias

    Malcolm R. Macleod;Tori O’Collins;David W. Howells;Geoffrey A. Donnan

  • Publication bias in reports of animal stroke studies leads to major overstatement of efficacy.

    Emily S. Sena;H. Bart van der Worp;Philip M. W. Bath;David W. Howells

  • Increasing value and reducing waste in biomedical research regulation and management

    Rustam Al-Shahi Salman;Elaine Beller;Jonathan Kagan;Elina Hemminki

  • Hypothermia in animal models of acute ischaemic stroke: a systematic review and meta-analysis

    H. Bart van der Worp;Emily S. Sena;Geoffrey A. Donnan;David W. Howells

  • Extending thrombolysis to 4·5–9 h and wake-up stroke using perfusion imaging: a systematic review and meta-analysis of individual patient data

    Bruce C V Campbell;Bruce C V Campbell;Henry Ma;Henry Ma;Peter A Ringleb;Mark W Parsons

  • Meta-analysis of data from animal studies: A practical guide

    H.M. Vesterinen;E.S. Sena;E.S. Sena;K.J. Egan;T.C. Hirst

  • Good laboratory practice: preventing introduction of bias at the bench.

    Malcolm R. Macleod;Marc Fisher;Victoria O'Collins;Victoria O'Collins;Emily S. Sena;Emily S. Sena;Emily S. Sena

  • How can we improve the pre-clinical development of drugs for stroke?

    Emily Sena;H. Bart van der Worp;David Howells;Malcolm Macleod

  • Evidence for the Efficacy of NXY-059 in Experimental Focal Cerebral Ischaemia Is Confounded by Study Quality

    Malcolm R. Macleod;H. Bart van der Worp;Emily S. Sena;Emily S. Sena;David W. Howells

  • CN-16INCIDENCE, PREVALENCE AND PREDICTORS OF CHEMOTHERAPY INDUCED PERIPHERAL NEUROPATHY: A SYSTEMATIC REVIEW AND META-ANALYSIS

    Marta Seretny;Gillian Currie;Emily Sena;Sabrina Ramnarine

Frequent Co-Authors

Geoffrey A. Donnan
Geoffrey A. Donnan University of Melbourne
Ulrich Dirnagl
Ulrich Dirnagl Charité - University Medicine Berlin
Philip M.W. Bath
Philip M.W. Bath University of Nottingham
Andrew S.C. Rice
Andrew S.C. Rice Imperial College London
Rustam Al-Shahi Salman
Rustam Al-Shahi Salman University of Edinburgh
Joanna M. Wardlaw
Joanna M. Wardlaw University of Edinburgh
Stephen M. Davis
Stephen M. Davis University of Melbourne
Innes C. Cuthill
Innes C. Cuthill University of Bristol
Peter Sandercock
Peter Sandercock University of Edinburgh
Jonathan R. Seckl
Jonathan R. Seckl University of Edinburgh

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