Where did it go? How Information Management Practices Impact Rigor and Reproducibility in Collaborative Clinical and Translational Research

Across 11 clinical and translational research teams, effective information management practices are linked to workflow efficiency, shared awareness, and confidence in research outputs.

• Why it matters: Information management is often devalued despite being central to how teams generate, share, and retrieve research artifacts, creating a gap in understanding its impact on rigor and reproducibility.
• What they did: The IMPACT-CTR study conducted semi-structured interviews with 52 team members across 11 CTRTs to identify shared practices for managing, storing, retrieving, and sharing information.
• The result: Teams with consistent information management reported faster workflows, less frustration, and greater trust in output completeness, while reflective implementation of lightweight practices enhanced rigor and reproducibility.