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Editorial Policy: How Our Reference Pages Are Written
Cobalt Peptides writes its compound profiles, research summaries, comparisons and guides from published sources. This page sets out where each kind of fact comes from, what we never publish, and how to tell us about a mistake.
What These Pages Are
The compound profiles, research summaries, comparisons and guides on this site are reference material about published research and laboratory practice. They describe what studies examined and reported, and how documents and methods work.
They are not advice. Nothing on them is an instruction for use in people or animals, and the materials we supply are for laboratory research use only.
Where the Facts Come From
- Studies are cited from PubMed, with their PMID and, where one exists, their DOI. The title, journal, authors and year of every citation are read from the NCBI record by machine, never typed by hand.
- A study’s finding is either quoted from its abstract, under “The study reported”, or, where the study has been reviewed by hand, described in our own words, including wherever the quoted sentence would misdescribe it.
- Molecular formula, molecular weight and CAS number are read from PubChem, from a record pinned by its compound identifier and checked against the record’s own synonyms before any value is used. Each value links to its record.
- Where no identifiable source states a value, the page says so instead of showing a figure.
How Studies Are Chosen and Labelled
- Each compound’s studies come from a recorded PubMed search, filtered to papers that are about the compound. Papers that only mention it in passing are left out, and a paper found to be off-topic is removed by hand.
- Each study is labelled by what kind of study it is, clinical, observational, review or preclinical, from its publication record, and corrected by hand where the record misleads. The label describes the study, not the strength of its result.
- A blend has no literature of its own unless a study tested the combination. Studies of its components are shown as such, each labelled with the component it concerns.
What We Do Not Publish
- Doses, dosing schedules or protocols
- Instructions or suggestions for use in people or animals
- Claims that a compound treats, cures, prevents or improves anything
- Rankings, scores or verdicts on which of two compounds is better
- Customer accounts of using a compound
Keeping Pages Current
Research summaries and guides show the date their text last changed, and give search engines the same date in their markup and in the sitemap. Profiles and comparisons give theirs in the sitemap. The date moves only when the text or its sources change, not when the site is redeployed.
The study library is re-read against PubMed from time to time. When a compound’s list of studies changes, its summary is checked against the new list before it is published.
Research Pages and the Catalogue
Research summaries do not link to products, and studies are not chosen to suit anything we sell. A study describes the material and conditions its authors used, not our product and not an outcome to expect.