Citation bias favoring statistically significant studies was present in medical research

Jannot, Anne-Sophie; Agoritsas, Thomas; Gayet-Ageron, Angèle; Perneger, Thomas

doi:10.1016/j.jclinepi.2012.09.015

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English

Citation bias favoring statistically significant studies was present in medical research

ContributorsJannot, Anne-Sophie; Agoritsas, Thomas

; Gayet-Ageron, Angèle

; Perneger, Thomas

Published inJournal of clinical epidemiology, vol. 66, no. 3, p. 296-301

Publication date2013

Abstract

Statistically significant studies may be cited more than negative studies on the same topic. We aimed to assess here whether such citation bias is present across the medical literature.

Keywords

Biomedical Research/methods/standards/statistics & numerical data
Data Interpretation, Statistical
Humans
Journal Impact Factor
Poisson Distribution
Publication Bias/statistics & numerical data

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Research groups

Epidémiologie clinique (115)

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JANNOT, Anne-Sophie et al. Citation bias favoring statistically significant studies was present in medical research. In: Journal of clinical epidemiology, 2013, vol. 66, n° 3, p. 296–301. doi: 10.1016/j.jclinepi.2012.09.015

Article (Published version)

Identifiers

PID : unige:35988
DOI : 10.1016/j.jclinepi.2012.09.015
PMID : 23347853

Journal ISSN0895-4356

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Citation bias favoring statistically significant studies was present in medical research

Statistically significant studies may be cited more than negative studies on the same topic. We aimed to assess here whether such citation bias is present across the medical literature.

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