In addition, an evaluation is made of the ability of the information presented in landscape visualizations to meet criteria of credibility, salience and legitimacy when communicating with stakeholders.
To ensure emerging theory had fit, relevance, and modifiability, trustworthiness of the data was sought using the criteria of credibility, originality, resonance and usefulness [ 19].
To judge the trustworthiness of the results, the study adopted the criteria of credibility, transferability, dependability, and confirmability as used elsewhere (29).
First, we do not propose that funding by industry (or any other source that could be perceived to have a biasing effect) should be itself a criterion of lack of credibility, because that would be antithetical to science: "The observing scientist is only an accessory in the acquisition of scientific evidence, where the facts are asked to first speak for themselves" (Borgert 2007).
Being consistent with, but going beyond the seminal SPI criteria of salience, credibility, and legitimacy (see introduction), our criteria thus envision the realization of four major building blocks of deliberative policy learning within SPIs.
The quality control criteria of authenticity, credibility, representatives, and meaning were applied on selected documents and subsequently selected for content analysis [ 25].
This observation is supported by the observation that less than 15% of these subgroup analyses met four of 10 criteria for credibility.
Further confirming our convergence thesis, two similar sets of credibility criteria have been published by the International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC) and the Federation of American Societies for Experimental Biology FASEBB).
All five of the underlying sets of credibility criteria also agree that reliable science involves the PI, by written agreement with the funding source, having the right to publish the study results without prior sponsor approval.
Such statements, and an array of others, were credible within the campaign's own inner logic because the criteria for credibility did not include a basis in reality or even coherence.
