Effect of Publication Bias on Retrieval Bias

Systematic review of publication bias in studies on publication bias.

Publication Bias

Review of publication bias in studies on publication bias: here's a proposal for editors that may help reduce publication bias.

We offer a solution to this problem that lies at the disposal of journal editors. Preliminary editorial decisions could be based solely on the peer review of the introduction and methods sections of submitted papers. These two sections deal with the key issues on which editorial decisions would ideally be based: the importance of the research question and the potential for the study design and ...

Publication policy or publication bias?

Although ‘‘a large number of studies have appeared in the literature that report associations of low penetrance genetic variants with disease,’’ as suggested in the recent CEBP editorial (1), hardly any of these reports have been translated into solid results by replication studies, at least for the common cancers. To some extent this is inevitable, as false-positive associations are an inheren...

Empirical assessment of effect of publication bias on meta-analyses.

OBJECTIVE To assess the effect of publication bias on the results and conclusions of systematic reviews and meta-analyses. DESIGN Analysis of published meta-analyses by trim and fill method. STUDIES 48 reviews in Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews that considered a binary endpoint and contained 10 or more individual studies. MAIN OUTCOME MEASURES Number of reviews with missing studie...