Citation analysis of identical consensus statements revealed journal-related bias

Perneger, Thomas

doi:10.1016/j.jclinepi.2009.09.012

Scientific article

English

Citation analysis of identical consensus statements revealed journal-related bias

ContributorsPerneger, Thomas

Published inJournal of clinical epidemiology, vol. 63, no. 6, p. 660-664

Publication date2010

Abstract

To examine whether the prestige of a journal, measured by its impact factor, influences the numbers of citations obtained by published articles, independently of their scientific merit.

Keywords

Cohort Studies
Consensus
Humans
Journal Impact Factor
Periodicals as Topic/standards
Publication Bias/statistics & numerical data
Quality Control

Affiliation entities

Faculté de médecine / Section de médecine clinique

Research groups

Epidémiologie clinique (115)

Citation (ISO format)

PERNEGER, Thomas. Citation analysis of identical consensus statements revealed journal-related bias. In: Journal of clinical epidemiology, 2010, vol. 63, n° 6, p. 660–664. doi: 10.1016/j.jclinepi.2009.09.012

Article (Published version)

Identifiers

PID : unige:32561
DOI : 10.1016/j.jclinepi.2009.09.012
PMID : 20097531

Journal ISSN0895-4356

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Citation analysis of identical consensus statements revealed journal-related bias

To examine whether the prestige of a journal, measured by its impact factor, influences the numbers of citations obtained by published articles, independently of their scientific merit.

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