Failure to publish negative results: A systematic bias in psychiatric literature
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Negative or non-significant results are rarely published in psychiatric literature.
“Negative (non-significant) results are rarely published in psychiatric literature 87 , which is affected by excess of statistical significance [88][89][90][91][92] .”
From Lack of evidence to favor specific preventive interventions in psychosis: a network meta‐analysis (2018) · cites this paper as [87]
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Negative results are disappearing from most disciplines and countries
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Lack of evidence to favor specific preventive interventions in psychosis: a network meta‐analysis
Davies, C., Cipriani, A., Ioannidis, J. P. A., Radua, J., Stahl, D., Provenzani, U., McGuire, P., & Fusar‐Poli, P. (2018) · World Psychiatry · doi:10.1002/wps.20526 · Cited by 229 · see citing works
- Authors
- Porter, R. J., Boden, J. M., Miskowiak, K., & Malhi, G. S.
- Affiliations
- University of Otago (NZ)
- Copenhagen University Hospital (DK)
- The University of Sydney (AU)
- Corresponding author
- Porter, Richard J
- Venue
- Australian & New Zealand Journal of Psychiatry
- Publisher
- SAGE Publications
- Published
- 2016-12-21
- Volume
- 51
- Issue
- 3
- Pages
- 212-214
- ISSN
- 0004-8674 (ISSN-L)
- 1440-1614
- OpenAlex
- W2573345499
- Cited by
- 12
- References
- 5
- Citations by year
- 2026: 1 · 2024: 1 · 2023: 1 · 2021: 2 · 2020: 1 · 2019: 2 · 2018: 3 · 2017: 1
- FWCI
- 1.88
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
- Locations
- Australian & New Zealand Journal of Psychiatry (publishedVersion)
- PubMed (publishedVersion)
- Research at the University of Copenhagen (University of Copenhagen) (submittedVersion)
- Topics
- Social Sciences › Decision Sciences › Statistics, Probability and Uncertainty › Meta-analysis and systematic reviews
- Social Sciences › Psychology › Experimental and Cognitive Psychology › Psychology Research and Bibliometrics
- Social Sciences › Decision Sciences › Information Systems and Management › Academic Publishing and Open Access
- Keywords
- negative results, publication bias, psychiatric research, research reporting
- MeSH terms
- Humans, Psychiatry, Publication Bias
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