Competing interest bias in academic publications
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INTRODUCTION Many authors believe that there are biases in scientific publications. Editorial biases include publication bias; which refers to those situations where the results influence the editor's decision, and editorial bias refers to those situations where factors related with authors or their environment influence the decision. DEVELOPMENT This paper includes an analysis of the situati...
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: Journal of the Royal Society of Medicine
سال: 2009
ISSN: 0141-0768,1758-1095
DOI: 10.1258/jrsm.2009.09k005