- Source:
|source=
– to accept {{PMID}} and {{DOI}} as well as URLs and plain text - Primary vs secondary:
|type=
Primary, secondary, tertiary. Ideally,|type=secondary
will return " Secondary source". Unknown should return the value. Missing or empty values should return a?
. - Date of publication:
|date=
5 years or less is good. More than 5 but 10 or less is maybe okay. More than 10 is probably bad. Calculation should err on the generous side (5 years 11 months = still five years). Unknown should return the value. Silence should return a?
. - Journal reputation:
|journal=
Return the name. (Link to article?) - Publisher:
|publisher=
Maybe a set list of usually good (e.g., Elsevier, Wiley). Short list for individual review (i.e., MDPI, Frontiers, Hindawi). Maybe a long list of known-bad. Otherwise, return the value. (Link to article?) - Evidence level(See PubMed's list of types):
|evidence=
review, systematic, narrative, literature, meta-analsis, guideline, practice guideline = good; case, case study, case report, clinical trial, conference, comment, editorial, interview, letter, news, popular, preprint, randomized controlled trial, retracted, social media = bad; all else just return the value - Pre-clinical vs human:
|human=
yes is good, no is bad, silence should make the whole line invisible. - Independence:
|independence=
yes is good, no is bad, unknown should return the value, silence should return a?
.
Evaluation of qualities in Wikipedia:Identifying reliable sources (medicine):
- Source:
- Date of publication:
- Journal name: '
- Publisher's name: