Google Drive is a cloud storage service from Google. We use it at the department to share documents relevant for employees at the department. if you do not have access to the Google Drive, write to Alexander Emil Kaspersen at alemka@clin.au.dk.

The research strategy at Department of Cardiothoracic and Vascular Surgery (CTVS) [da: Hjerte-, Lunge-, Karkirurgi (HLK)] has been written and implemented.

Pure is the IT system Aarhus University, as well as the other higher-education institutions in Denmark, has chosen to collect, maintain and display data related to research production. Pure data, including the researchers' publications, research activities, and projects, are displayed on the researchers' personal AU website.

New projects are made available to the public through our website to increase awareness of our research. The projects are published on the Projects page, both on the listing and on an individual page with a description and info on the project. The individual project page should contain a description following the guidelines below:

• Title
• Eventually an acronym
• Study design
• Background
• Objective(s)
• Collaboration
• Project group (full name, academic degrees, academic title and clinical title, department, institution, city, and country for each participating individual)
• Funding
• Eventually published papers
• An image easily associatable with the project
• Project start and end (month and year)
• Status (initial preparations, ongoing, etc.)
• Project leader (the primary researcher on the project)
• Primary investigator and/or supervisor
• Eventually ClinicalTrials.gov registration (number and link)
• Eventually EudraCT number

Everyone can send a request for publication of a news post/article or an event on the website. Please write to ctvs@clin.au.dk. The request should contain the following:

• Title
• Excerpt
• Main text with eventual subheadings
• Contact information with name, academic degrees, academic and clinical title, department, institution, address, and email
• Images (possible images to include are one header image and multiple other images. Remember to include a figure text, if images are included, where the name of the photographer is added)

Events should contain the following information in addition to the above:

• Date and time (from and to, including specific times)
• Location (room, level, entrance, department, institution, address)

Contents are to be published on the Twitter profile of CTVS (CTVS_Aarhus).

Journal Club is an event which is held once a month within a subject of interest to researchers. The event is arranged by one or more PhD students.

Good Clinical Practice (GCP) is an internationally recognised quality standard for clinical trials that involve the participation of human subjects.

The national GCP units offer a free e-learning course targeted researchers/investigators, clinical trial coordinators, and other health care professionals.

The Experimental Design Assistant (EDA) is a free online tool from the National Centre for the Replacement, Refinement & Reduction of Animals in Research (NC3Rs).

LAS.AU.DK is used to:

• Order laboratory animals
• Economics
• Booking of rooms and equipment
• Animal experiment administration

When referring to the ARRIVE guidelines 2.0 use:

• Percie du Sert N., Hurst V., Ahluwalia A., Alam S., Avey M. T., Baker M., Browne W. J., Clark A., Cuthill I. C., Dirnagl U., Emerson M., Garner P., Holgate S. T., Howells D. W., Karp N. A., Lazic S. E., Lidster K., MacCallum C. J., Macleod M., Pearl E. J., Petersen O. H., Rawle F., Reynolds P., Rooney K., Sena E. S., Silberberg S. D., Steckler T., Würbel H. The ARRIVE guidelines 2.0: Updated 60 guidelines for reporting animal research. PLoS Biol 2020;18(7):e3000410. DOI: 10.1371/journal.pbio.3000410

Both major and minor foundations support our research with financial contributions. Relevant foundations can be found at the external funding database ResearchProfessional.com. Furthermore, a comprehensive list of foundations specifically relevant for our department as well as previous funding sources and funds received can be found at our Google Drive.

The grant proposal is comprised by different documents and is targeted the foundation, organization or funding agency. The proposal is typically comprised by the following documents:

• Cover letter
• Layman's description
• Project description
• Budget
• CV and publication list of the applicant and eventually also of the supervisor

The grant proposal should be styled to the specific fund or organization and should be prepaired in due time.

Read more about the grant proposal at the website of the Research Support Office.

ReAp is a system to keep track of the external funding of research projects at Health, Aarhus University. When you submit a grant application, you must register the application in ReAp. See the guideline here.

Internal registration to our grant application database should be done with all grant applications submitted. Add your application to the Excel file "Fonds- og bevillingsliste" at our Google Drive. When you receive an answer, mark it with either a "JA" or a "NEJ" in the column "Afvist (Ja/Nej)".

When a grant has been approved, you have to send out a letter of appreciation. A template has been made for letters of appreciation - both a letter from Aarhus University Hospital and Aarhus University.

CONNECT has produced a guide in legal advice when preparing a research project.

Basic and advanced knowledge is mandatory at our department, when you work with public, internal, sensitive, or confidential data related to research involving humans.

Our logo is available for download in different types, depending on the purpose of use. All logos are in png format with transparent background. When you press the download button, please right click on the image and choose "Save as" to save it on your computer.

Can be used on presentations etc. where any other identification of the Department of Cardiothoracic and Vascular Surgery appears.

Is (so far) only available with text in black for light backgrounds.

Is available with black text for light backgrounds and with white text for dark backgrounds.

There are three types of templates for PowerPoint slideshows and xxx for posters in PowerPoint.

By following the link to the right, you will be redirected to a folder with three kind of templates, including a template for scientific PowerPoint presentations with IMRAD structure and another without IMRAD structure and a template for poster presentations. The CTVS PowerPoint templates are for all staff affiliated with Department of Cardiothoracic and Vascular Surgery and contains logos from CTVS, AUH, and AU.

Follow the link to find templates for PowerPoint slideshows. Aarhus University does not have an official template for posters. If your PC is joined to the UNI domain, the templates are integrated in Word and PowerPoint. If your PC is not joined to the UNI domain, you can download AU’s templates one by one by following the link.

Templates for both slideshow PowerPoint presentations and posters can be downloaded from the intranet of Central Denmark Region. To access the templates you have to go through Citrix.

Images can either be produced by yourself or by paying a graphical designer or photographer, or free images can be found through the free sources listed by Health Communications (see buttons).

When preparing for publication in national and international scientific journals as well as in abstracts and in PowerPoint presentations and posters, affiliations to our department should be given as:

• Department of Cardiothoracic and Vascular Surgery, Aarhus University Hospital, Aarhus, Denmark

An eventual affiliation to the Department of Clinical Medicine, Aarhus University should be given as:

• Department of Clinical Medicine, Faculty of Health, Aarhus University, Aarhus, Denmark

This is to unify the way our department is cited, so publications can be traced back to us.

Open Access is preferred.

Aarhus University has a number of discount agreements (access list through button on the right). The following is required in order to use the agreements of discount:

• The author must be the corresponding author
• The author must use the institutional mail (xxx@clin.au.dk)
• Choose "Gold OA" to publish without publication fees
• Choose a CC-BY license

Information on the current Elsevier agreement can be found here:

• Elsevier agreement (1 January 2021 to 31 December 2024)

Authorship is generally based on the International Committee of Medical Journal Editors (ICMJE) recommendations for the Conduct, Reporting, Editing, and Publication of Scholarly Work in Medical Journals. This means that authorship is based on the following four criteria:

• Substantial contributions to the conception or design of the work; or the acquisition, analysis, or interpretation of data for the work;
• AND drafting the work or revising it critically for important intellectual content;
• AND final approval of the version to be published;
• AND agreement to be accountable for all aspects of the work in ensuring that questions related to the accuracy or integrity of any part of the work are appropriately investigated and resolved.

The CRediT (Contributor Roles Taxonomy) was originally developed by CASRAI (Consortia Advancing Standards in Research Administration Information) to represent the roles typically played by contributors to scientific scholarly output. The roles describe each contributor’s specific contribution to the scholarly output. However, after the cessation of CASRAI, NISO (National Information Standards Organization) took over the management and has published the terminology as a formal ANSI/NISO standard.

A publication in the European Heart Journal in 2020 found that a social media strategy of Twitter promotion for scientific papers from the cardiovascular domain seems to be associated with increased online visibility and higher number of citations. The department has it's own Twitter profile Cardiothoracic and Vascular Surgery, Aarhus with the profile name CTVS_Aarhus.