The role of results in deciding to publish: A direct comparison across authors, reviewers, and editors based on an online survey.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Publishing study results in scientific journals has been the standard way of disseminating science. However, getting results published may depend on their statistical significance. The consequence of this is that the representation of scientific knowledge might be biased. This type of bias has been called publication bias. The main objective of the present study is to get more insight into publication bias by examining it at the author, reviewer, and editor level. Additionally, we make a direct comparison between publication bias induced by authors, by reviewers, and by editors. We approached our participants by e-mail, asking them to fill out an online survey.

Results

Our findings suggest that statistically significant findings have a higher likelihood to be publ

SUBMITTER: Muradchanian J 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10547160 | biostudies-literature | 2023

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature