All that glitters isn't gold: A survey on acknowledgment of limitations in biomedical studies

PLoS ONE

Volumn 8, Issue 11, 2013, Pages

  Ter Riet, Gerben ^a   Chesley, Paula ^b   Gross, Alan G ^c   Siebeling, Lara ^a   Muggensturm, Patrick ^d   Heller, Nadine ^e   Umbehr, Martin ^d,f   Vollenweider, Daniela ^g   Yu, Tsung ^h   Akl, Elie A ^i,j,k   Brewster, Lizzy ^a   Dekkers, Olaf M ^l   Mühlhauser, Ingrid ^m   Richter, Bernd ⁿ   Singh, Sonal ^o   Goodman, Steven ^p   Puhan, Milo A ^h,q  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TÜBINGEN   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^e Ambulatorium Glattal   (Switzerland)

^f UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^g Stadtspital Waid   (Switzerland)

^h JOHNS HOPKINS BLOOMBERG SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

ⁱ AMERICAN UNIVERSITY OF BEIRUT   (Lebanon)

^j MCMASTER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^k UNIVERSITY AT BUFFALO   (United States)

^l LEIDEN UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^m UNIVERSITY OF HAMBURG   (Germany)

ⁿ UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL DÜSSELDORF   (Germany)

^o JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^p STANFORD UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^q UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

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Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACKNOWLEDGMENT OF LIMITATIONS; ARTICLE; CLASSIFICATION; COMPUTER PROGRAM; LINGUISTICS; MEDICAL LITERATURE; MEDICAL RESEARCH; METHODOLOGY; PUBLICATION; SCORING SYSTEM; UNCERTAINTY;

BIBLIOMETRICS; BIOMEDICAL RESEARCH; PUBLICATIONS;

EID: 84896718550     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0073623     Document Type: Article

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