> follow up study

Go find it. Use the internet.

> a lot of prerequisites or best practices that exist at one university or within one discipline are left out of the publication

So you think journals are omitting methodology to save on what, printing costs?

The crisis is systemic: researchers are forced to 'publish or perish' while those dying from little understood causes are blocked from accessing said knowledge... the whole thing is designed to enrich few at the cost of the many imo, not to accurately conduct scientific investigation and communicate findings for the benefit of humans and our habitat.