Access to previous research facilitates scientific progress by preventing replication and allowing other researchers to build on reported developments. Quality articles need to provide the information required to facilitate reproduction of the experiments by others. This is a challenge for research in a single discipline like analytical chemistry that rapidly grows when reporting cross disciplinary research outcomes, as a minimum level of information needs to be provided for each of the disciplines covered. Where custom processes or devices are used, higher level of experimental detail is required to ensure repeatability, and data may be required to validate the approach. For analytical articles in microfluidics and flow analysis, aspects that need to be covered include the device design and manufacture, instrumentation, the assay and the data processing and analysis.

通过防止重复和允许其他研究人员在报告的发展基础上进行研究，访问以前的研究可以促进科学进步。优质文章需要提供便于他人复制实验所需的信息。这对于在报告跨学科研究成果时快速增长的分析化学等单一学科的研究来说是一个挑战，因为需要为所涵盖的每个学科提供最低水平的信息。在使用定制流程或设备的情况下，需要更高级别的实验细节以确保可重复性，并且可能需要数据来验证该方法。对于微流体和流量分析方面的分析文章，需要涵盖的方面包括设备设计和制造、仪器、