Outcome discrepancies and selective reporting: Impacting the leading journals?

PLoS ONE

Volumn 10, Issue 5, 2015, Pages

  Fleming, Padhraig S ^a   Koletsi, Despina ^b   Dwan, Kerry ^c   Pandis, Nikolaos ^d  

^a QUEEN MARY UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS   (Greece)

^c UNIVERSITY OF LIVERPOOL   (United Kingdom)

^d UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; FUNDING; INFORMATION PROCESSING; JOURNAL IMPACT FACTOR; MEDICAL LITERATURE; MEDICAL RESEARCH; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PUBLICATION; PUBLISHING; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL (TOPIC); REGISTER; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; HUMAN; METHODOLOGY; STANDARDS;

HUMANS; PERIODICALS AS TOPIC; PUBLICATION BIAS; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIALS AS TOPIC; REGISTRIES; RESEARCH DESIGN;

EID: 84930681318     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0127495     Document Type: Article

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