Underreporting Research Is Scientific Misconduct

JAMA: The Journal of the American Medical Association

Volumn 263, Issue 10, 1990, Pages 1405-1408

  Chalmers, Iain ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLINICAL TRIAL; CONFERENCE PAPER; HUMAN; MEDICAL LITERATURE; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ANALYTICAL APPROACH; BIOMEDICAL AND BEHAVIORAL RESEARCH; BIOMEDICAL RESEARCH; CANCER; CLINICAL APPROACH/SOURCE; EDITORIAL POLICIES; EMPIRICAL APPROACH; INFORMATION DISSEMINATION; INTERNATIONAL ASPECTS; OBSTETRICS AND GYNECOLOGY; POLICY ANALYSIS; PREGNANT WOMEN; RESOURCE ALLOCATION; SOCIAL IMPACT; STANDARDS; SURVEY; TWINNING;

CLINICAL TRIALS; ETHICS COMMITTEES, CLINICAL; ETHICS COMMITTEES, RESEARCH; PEER REVIEW; PERINATOLOGY; PERIODICALS; PUBLISHING; RESEARCH DESIGN; SCIENTIFIC MISCONDUCT; SUPPORT, NON-U.S. GOV'T; SUPPORT, U.S. GOV'T, P.H.S.;

EID: 0025099275     PISSN: 00987484     EISSN: 15383598     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1001/jama.1990.03440100121018     Document Type: Article

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