Journal editors now invite researchers to take the lead in beginning this work. What will we do as editors to support them and their colleagues? First, we are drawing wide attention to The CROWN Initiative by publishing this editorial in the journals listed below. We shall ensure that the global research community, which includes our many reviewers, is aware of the need for core outcome sets. Submissions which describe development of core outcome sets, if deemed acceptable after peer review, will be effectively disseminated.
Producing, disseminating and implementing core outcome sets will ensure that critical and important outcomes with good measurement properties are incorporated and reported. We believe this is the next important step in advancing the usefulness of research, in informing readers, including guideline and policy developers, who are involved in decision-making, and in improving evidence-based practice.
Competing interests
The author declares that he has no competing interests.
Any queries should be directed to the Editors-in-Chief, David Curiel, Sham S. Kakar, Stefano Palomba, Benjamin K Tsang, ovarianresearch@biomedcentral.com.
The CROWN Initiative includes the following journals, in alphabetical order, (up to date list available at
www.crown-initiative.org):
1. Acta Obstetricia et Gynecologica Scandinavica
2. American Journal of Obstetrics & Gynecology
3. American Journal of Perinatology
.4 Archives of Gynecology and Obstetrics
5. Australian and New Zealand Journal of Obstetrics and Gynaecology
6. Best Practice & Research: Clinical Obstetrics & Gynaecology
7. Birth: Issues in Perinatal Care
8. BJOG: An International Journal of Obstetrics and Gynaecology
9. BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth
10. BMC Women's Health
11. Climacteric
12. Clinical Obstetrics and Gynecology
13. Clinics in Perinatology
14. Cochrane Menstrual Disorders and Subfertility Group
15. Cochrane Pregnancy and Childbirth Group
16. Contraception
17. Contraception and Reproductive Medicine
18. Current Opinion in Obstetrics and Gynecology
19. European Journal of Obstetrics & Gynecology and Reproductive Biology
20. Fertility and Sterility
21. Fertility Research and Practice
22. Fetal Diagnosis and Therapy
23. Ginekologia Polska
24. Gynecological Surgery
25. Gynecologic Oncology
26. Gynecologic Oncology Reports
27. Human Fertility
28. Human Reproduction
29. Human Reproduction Update
30. Hypertension in Pregnancy
31. International Journal of Fertility and Sterility
32. International Breastfeeding Journal
33. International Journal of Gynecology & Obstetrics
34. International Urogynecology Journal
35. Journal of Family Planning and Reproductive Health Care
36. Journal of Gynecologic Oncology
37. Journal of Lower Genital Tract Disease
38. Journal of Midwifery & Women's Health
39. Journal of Obstetrics & Gynaecology
40. Journal of Obstetrics and Gynaecology Canada
41. Journal of Obstetric, Gynecologic & Neonatal Nursing
42. Journal of Ovarian Research
43. Journal of Perinatal & Neonatal Nursing
44. Journal of Perinatal Medicine
45. Maternal Health, Neonatology, and Perinatology
46. Maturitas
47. MCN The American Journal of Maternal Child Nursing
48. Menopause Review (Przegląd Menopauzalny)
49. Menopause: The Journal of The North American Menopause Society
50. Neurourology and Urodynamics
51. Obstetrics & Gynecology
52. Paediatric and Perinatal Epidemiology
53. Placenta
54. Prenatal Diagnosis
55. Reproductive Health
56. The Breast Journal
57. The European Journal of Contraception and Reproductive Health Care
58. The Obstetrician & Gynaecologist (TOG)
59. Twin Research and Human Genetics
60. Ultrasound in Obstetrics & Gynecology
61. Women’s Midlife Health