Country development and manuscript selection bias: A review of published studies

BMC Medical Research Methodology

Volumn 6, Issue , 2006, Pages

  Yousefi Nooraie, Reza ^a,b   Shakiba, Behnam ^b   Mortaz Hejri, Soroush ^a  

^a TEHRAN UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Iran)

^b TEHRAN UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Iran)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DATA EXTRACTION; DEVELOPING COUNTRY; HUMAN; INCOME; MEDICAL RESEARCH; METHODOLOGY; PREDICTION; PUBLICATION; PUBLISHING; RANDOM SAMPLE; RANDOMIZATION; SAMPLE SIZE; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; CLASSIFICATION; ECONOMICS; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; PEER REVIEW; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL (TOPIC); STANDARDS; STATISTICAL MODEL; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; UNITED NATIONS;

DEVELOPING COUNTRIES; HUMANS; INCOME; INFORMATION STORAGE AND RETRIEVAL; LINEAR MODELS; MANUSCRIPTS AS TOPIC; PEER REVIEW, RESEARCH; PERIODICALS AS TOPIC; PUBLICATION BIAS; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIALS AS TOPIC; RESEARCH DESIGN; UNITED NATIONS;

EID: 33747666953     PISSN: 14712288     EISSN: 14712288     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2288-6-37     Document Type: Article

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