Editorial Policies

Time for gender mainstreaming in editorial policies

The HIV epidemic has been continuously growing among women, and in some parts of the world, HIV-infected women outnumber men. Women's greater vulnerability to HIV, both biologically and socially, influences their health risk and health outcome. This disparity between sexes has been established for other diseases, for example, autoimmune diseases, malignancies and cardiovascular diseases. Differ...

Editorial Policies for the Publication of Controversial Findings

Armstrong and Hubbard (1991), in a survey of editors of 20 psychology journals, found a bias against the publication of papers with controversial findings. The 16 editors who responded said that they received few papers with controversial findings "during the last two years." When they did receive such papers, the reviewers rejected them. Some of these editors expressed dismay over this situati...

Editorial policies and publication bias: the importance of negative studies.

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