Publication bias in the social sciences: Unlocking the file drawer

Science

Volumn 345, Issue 6203, 2014, Pages 1502-1505

  Franco, Annie ^a   Malhotra, Neil ^b   Simonovits, Gabor ^a  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; PUBLISHING; SOCIOLOGY;

PUBLICATION BIAS; SOCIAL SCIENCES;

EID: 84907224761     PISSN: 00368075     EISSN: 10959203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1126/science.1255484     Document Type: Article

References (41)

1. K. Dickersin, JAMA 263, 1385-1389 (1990).
2. R. Rosenthal, Psychol. Bull. 86, 638-641 (1979).
3. C. B. Begg, J. A. Berlin, J. R. Stat. Soc. Ser. 151, 419-463 (1988).
4. J. A. Berlin, C. B. Begg, T. A. Louis, J. Am. Stat. Assoc. 84, 381-392 (1989).
5. P. J. Easterbrook, J. A. Berlin, R. Gopalan, D. R. Matthews, Lancet 337, 867-872 (1991).
6. L. McAuley, B. Pham, P. Tugwell, D. Moher, Lancet 356, 1228-1231 (2000).
7. M. Egger, P. Juni, C. Bartlett, F. Holenstein, J. Sterne, Health Technol. Assess. 7, 1-76 (2003).
8. H. R. Rothstein, A. J. Sutton, M. Borenstein, Eds., Publication Bias in Meta-Analysis: Prevention, Assessment and Adjustments (Wiley, Chichester, UK, 2006).
9. F. Song et al., Health Technol. Assess. 14, iii, ix-xi, 1-193 (2010).
10. T. D. Sterling, J. Am. Stat. Assoc. 54, 30-34 (1959).
11. A. Coursol, E. E. Wagner, Prof. Psychol. Res. Pr. 17, 136-137 (1986).
12. A. G. Greenwald, Psychol. Bull. 82, 1-20 (1975).
13. D. Card, A. B. Krueger, Am. Econ. Rev. 85, 238-243 (1995).
14. O. Ashenfelter, C. Harmon, H. Oosterbeek, Labour Econ. 6, 453-470 (1999).
15. C. Doucouliagos, J. Econ. Surv. 19, 367-387 (2005).
16. A. Gerber, N. Malhotra, Quart. J. Pol. Sci. 3, 313-326 (2008).
17. A. Gerber, N. Malhotra, Sociol. Methods Res. 37, 3-30 (2008).
18. H. Cooper, L. V. Hedges, J. C. Valentine, Eds., The Handbook of Research Synthesis and Meta-Analysis (Russell Sage Foundation, New York, ed. 2, 2009).
19. R. J. Light, D. B. Pillemar, Summing Up: The Science of Reviewing Research (Harvard Univ. Press, Cambridge, MA, 1984).
20. M. Egger, G. D. Smith, M. Schneider, C. Minder, BMJ 315, 629-634 (1997).
21. J. P. Ioannidis, T. A. Trikalinos, CMAJ 176, 1091-1096 (2007).
22. J. Lau, J. P. Ioannidis, N. Terrin, C. H. Schmid, I. Olkin, BMJ 333, 597-600 (2006).
23. D. T. Felson, J. Clin. Epidemiol. 45, 885-892 (1992).
24. K. Dickersin, in Publication Bias in Meta-Analysis: Prevention, Assessment and Adjustments, H. R. Rothstein, A. J. Sutton, M. Borenstein, Eds. (Wiley, Chichester, UK, 2006), ch. 2.
25. K. Dwan et al., PLOS One 3, e3081 (2008).
26. M. L. Callaham, R. L. Wears, E. J. Weber, C. Barton, G. Young, JAMA 280, 254-257 (1998).
27. M. Callaham, R. L. Wears, E. Weber, JAMA 287, 2847-2850 (2002).
28. C. M. Olson et al., JAMA 287, 2825-2828 (2002).
29. A. Timmer, R. J. Hilsden, J. Cole, D. Hailey, L. R. Sutherland, BMC Med. Res. Methodol. 2, 7 (2002).
30. K. P. Lee, E. A. Boyd, J. M. Holroyd-Leduc, P. Bacchetti, L. A. Bero, Med. J. Aust. 184, 621-626 (2006).
31. K. Okike, M. S. Kocher, C. T. Mehlman, J. D. Heckman, M. Bhandari, J. Bone Joint Surg. 90, 595-601 (2008).
32. K. Dickersin, S. Chan, T. C. Chalmers, H. S. Sacks, H. Smith Jr., Control. Clin. Trials 8, 343-353 (1987).
33. K. Dickersin, Y. I. Min, C. L. Meinert, JAMA 267, 374-378 (1992).
34. K. Dickersin, Y. I. Min, Online J. Curr. Clin. Trials 1993, 50 (1993).
35. R. M. D. Smyth et al., BMJ 342 (jan 06 1), c7153 (2011).
36. H. Cooper, K. DeNeve, K. Charlton, Psychol. Methods 2, 447-452 (1997).
37. G. V. B. Glass, B. McGaw, M. L. Smith, Meta Analysis in Social Research (Sage, Beverly Hills, CA, 1981).
38. The rate at which research-initiated proposals are approved by the peer reviewers engaged by TESS is provided in the supplementary materials.
39. TESS archive; www.tessexperiments.org.
40. Materials and methods are available as supplementary materials on Science Online.
41. K. Casey, R. Glennerster, E. Miguel, Q. J. Econ. 127, 1755-1812 (2012).