Why are medical and health-related studies not being published? A systematic review of reasons given by investigators.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

About half of medical and health-related studies are not published. We conducted a systematic review of reports on reasons given by investigators for not publishing their studies in peer-reviewed journals.

Methods

MEDLINE, EMBASE, PsycINFO, and SCOPUS (until 13/09/2013), and references of identified articles were searched to identify reports of surveys that provided data on reasons given by investigators for not publishing studies. The proportion of non-submission and reasons for non-publication was calculated using the number of unpublished studies as the denominator. Because of heterogeneity across studies, quantitative pooling was not conducted. Exploratory subgroup analyses were conducted.

Results

We included 54 survey reports. Data from 38 included repo

SUBMITTER: Song F 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4198242 | biostudies-literature | 2014

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature