Biased under-reporting of research reflects biased under-submission more than biased editorial rejection

Stephen Senn challenges Ben Goldacre’s assertion in ‘Bad Pharma’ that biased editorial acceptance of reports with ‘positive’ findings is not a cause of biased under-reporting of research. We agree with Senn that biased editorial decisions may contribute to reporting bias, but Senn ignores the eviden...

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Autores principales: Chalmers, Iain, Dickersin, Kay
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: F1000Research 2013
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3782352/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24358860
http://dx.doi.org/10.12688/f1000research.2-1.v1
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description Stephen Senn challenges Ben Goldacre’s assertion in ‘Bad Pharma’ that biased editorial acceptance of reports with ‘positive’ findings is not a cause of biased under-reporting of research. We agree with Senn that biased editorial decisions may contribute to reporting bias, but Senn ignores the evidence that biased decisions by researchers to submit reports for possible publication are the main causes of the problem.
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spelling pubmed-37823522013-12-05 Biased under-reporting of research reflects biased under-submission more than biased editorial rejection Chalmers, Iain Dickersin, Kay F1000Res Correspondence Stephen Senn challenges Ben Goldacre’s assertion in ‘Bad Pharma’ that biased editorial acceptance of reports with ‘positive’ findings is not a cause of biased under-reporting of research. We agree with Senn that biased editorial decisions may contribute to reporting bias, but Senn ignores the evidence that biased decisions by researchers to submit reports for possible publication are the main causes of the problem. F1000Research 2013-01-02 /pmc/articles/PMC3782352/ /pubmed/24358860 http://dx.doi.org/10.12688/f1000research.2-1.v1 Text en Copyright: © 2013 Chalmers I et al. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Licence, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/ Data associated with the article are available under the terms of the Creative Commons Zero "No rights reserved" data waiver (CC0 1.0 Public domain dedication).
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Biased under-reporting of research reflects biased under-submission more than biased editorial rejection
title Biased under-reporting of research reflects biased under-submission more than biased editorial rejection
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title_full_unstemmed Biased under-reporting of research reflects biased under-submission more than biased editorial rejection
title_short Biased under-reporting of research reflects biased under-submission more than biased editorial rejection
title_sort biased under-reporting of research reflects biased under-submission more than biased editorial rejection
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3782352/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24358860
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