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“The main results of this study, which are “negative”, fulfill the proposed standards of validity for studies with negative results, i.e., reporting primary outcomes, statistical power, and confidence intervals and show a plausible hypothesis [26,27].”
- Authors
- Pfeffer, C., & Olsen, B. R.
- Affiliations
- Harvard University (US)
- Corresponding author
- Pfeffer, Christian
- Olsen, Bjorn R
- ORCID
- Olsen, Bjorn R
- Venue
- Journal of Negative Results in BioMedicine
- Published
- 2002-11-12
- Volume
- 1
- Issue
- 1
- Pages
- 2-2
- ISSN
- 1477-5751 (ISSN-L)
- PMC
- PMC149424
- OpenAlex
- W1533402885
- Cited by
- 62
- References
- 0
- Citations by year
- 2026: 1 · 2025: 4 · 2022: 2 · 2021: 27 · 2020: 2 · 2019: 3 · 2018: 2 · 2017: 5 · 2016: 3 · 2015: 4
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- bronze
- doi.org
- Locations
- Journal of Negative Results in BioMedicine (publishedVersion)
- PubMed Central (publishedVersion, other-oa)
- PubMed (publishedVersion)
- Topics
- Social Sciences › Arts and Humanities › History and Philosophy of Science › Publishing and Scholarly Communication
- Social Sciences › Decision Sciences › Information Systems and Management › Academic Publishing and Open Access
- Social Sciences › Arts and Humanities › History and Philosophy of Science › Academic Writing and Publishing
- Keywords
- negative results, failed experiments, publication bias, research reproducibility
- MeSH terms
- Periodicals as Topic, Publishing, Reproducibility of Results, Publication Bias, Editorial Policies
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