Why Current Publication Practices May Distort Science
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- 7 October 2008
- journal article
- Published by Public Library of Science (PLoS) in PLoS Medicine
- Vol. 5 (10), e201
- https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pmed.0050201
Abstract
John Ioannidis and colleagues argue that the current system of publication in biomedical research provides a distorted view of the reality of scientific data.Keywords
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