Language bias in neuroscience - Is the Tower of Babel located in Germany?

European Psychiatry

Volumn 19, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 230-232

  Heres, S ^a   Wagenpfeil, S ^a   Hamann, J ^a   Kissling, W ^a   Leucht, S ^a  

^a TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

Author keywords

Bias (epidemiology); German; Language; Psychiatry; Publishing; Randomized controlled trials

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; GERMANY; LANGUAGE; METHODOLOGY; NEUROSCIENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE;

GERMANY; INTERNAL MEDICINE; LANGUAGE; NEUROSCIENCES; PUBLISHING; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIALS;

EID: 2942637884     PISSN: 09249338     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.eurpsy.2003.09.011     Document Type: Article

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