# Research methodology template
Status: published
Question: What sections must every Fajita research publication include before release?
Minimum cohort: 50
Organization count: 0
Canonical: https://fajita.io/research/methodology-template
Fajita publishes original research only when privacy-safe aggregated data and a complete methodology exist. Until then, studies remain in data-insufficient or collecting states.

## Required sections

- Research question
- Date range
- Dataset definition
- Inclusion and exclusion criteria
- Sample size and organization count
- Metric definitions and calculations
- Limitations
- Privacy protections
- Version and correction process

## Privacy boundaries

- No customer names, domains, monitor URLs, or incident titles
- Minimum cohort threshold: 50 independent eligible organizations (configurable, privacy-reviewed)
- No publication from fabricated synthetic customer behavior

## Corrections and retractions

Material errors require a public correction notice and version bump. Invalid studies are retracted with a public notice. Findings are never silently rewritten.