Publication Bias in Medical Informatics

Publication trends in the medical informatics literature: 20 years of "Medical Informatics" in MeSH

BACKGROUND The purpose of this study is to identify publication output, and research areas, as well as descriptively and quantitatively characterize the field of medical informatics through publication trend analysis over a twenty year period (1987-2006). METHODS A bibliometric analysis of medical informatics citations indexed in Medline was performed using publication trends, journal frequen...

Systematic review of publication bias in studies on publication bias.

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 in situ

BACKGROUND Publication bias, as typically defined, refers to the decreased likelihood of studies' results being published when they are near the null, not statistically significant, or otherwise "less interesting." But choices about how to analyze the data and which results to report create a publication bias within the published results, a bias I label "publication bias in situ" (PBIS). DISC...