Abstract The US National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke convened major
stakeholders in June 2012 to discuss how to improve the methodological reporting of animal …

Background The tendency for authors to submit, and of journals to accept, manuscripts for
publication based on the direction or strength of the study findings has been termed …

We studied publication bias in the social sciences by analyzing a known population of
conducted studies—221 in total—in which there is a full accounting of what is published and …

Praise for the First Edition"... the book is a valuable addition to the literature in the field,
serving as a much-needed guide for both clinicians and advanced students."—Zentralblatt …

Publication bias is a major problem in evidence based medicine. As well as positive
outcome studies being preferentially published or followed by full text publication authors …

Background Abstracts of presentations at scientific meetings are usually available only in
conference proceedings. If subsequent full publication of results reported in these abstracts …

Background & Aims: The published risk of adenocarcinoma in the setting of Barrett's
esophagus (BE) varies. Publication bias, the selective reporting of studies featuring positive …

Background The inclusion of only a subset of all available evidence in a meta-analysis may
introduce biases and threaten its validity; this is particularly likely if the subset of included …

Meta-analysis, decision analysis, and cost-effectiveness analysis are the cornerstones of
evidence-based medicine. These related quantitative methods have become essential tools …

ContextCitation by other authors is important in the dissemination of published science, but
factors predicting it are little studied. MethodsTo identify characteristics of published …