Fighting Publication Bias: Introducing the Negative Results Section

Dealing with the positive publication bias: Why you should really publish your negative results

Studies with positive results are greatly more represented in literature than studies with negative results, producing so-called publication bias. This review aims to discuss occurring problems around negative results and to emphasize the importance of reporting negative results. Underreporting of negative results introduces bias into meta-analysis, which consequently misinforms researchers, do...

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

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...

Publication Bias

Publication bias is a scientific problem with adverse ethical outcomes: the case for a section for null results.

The communication of research findings is one of our most important functions. Not communicating research findings can be harmful in many ways. Publication bias is a well-known phenomenon that affects cancer epidemiology, biomarker research, and cancer prevention. As these areas grow, along with the technologies, the risk of publication bias grows. To avoid the pitfall of publication bias and e...