Abe H Aquilanti G Boada R Bunker B Glatzel P Nachtegaal M Pascarelli S 2018 Following the Q2XAFS Workshop and Satellite to IUCr Congress 2017 on `Data Acquisition, Treatment, Storage - quality assurance in XAFS spectroscopy', a summary is given of the discussion on different aspects of a XAFS experiment that affect data quality. Some pertinent problems ranging from sources and minimization of noise to harmonic contamination and uncompensated monochromator glitches were addressed. Also, an overview is given of the major limitations and pitfalls of a selection of related methods, such as photon-out spectroscopies and energy-dispersive XAFS, and of increasingly common applications, namely studies at high pressure, and time-resolved investigations of catalysts in operando. Advice on how to avoid or deal with these problems and a few good practice recommendations are reported, including how to correctly report results. application/pdf https://sonar.ch/global/documents/77392 eng info:eu-repo/semantics/altIdentifier/doi/10.1107/S1600577518006021 info:eu-repo/semantics/altIdentifier/pmid/29979158 info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess Journal of synchrotron radiation. - 2018 XAFS good practice in XAFS experiments harmonic rejection in XAFS quality of XAFS data sources of noise in XAFS Improving the quality of XAFS data. http://purl.org/coar/resource_type/c_6501