Statistically significant, ‘positive’ results that indicate that an intervention works are more likely to be published, more likely to be published rapidly, more likely to be published in English, more likely to be published more than once, more likely to be published in high impact journals and, related to the last point, more likely to be cited by others. Reporting biases arise when the dissemination of research findings is influenced by the nature and direction of results. It has long been recognized that only a proportion of research projects ultimately reach publication in an indexed journal and thus become easily identifiable for systematic reviews. The dissemination of research findings is not a division into published or unpublished, but a continuum ranging from the sharing of draft papers among colleagues, through presentations at meetings and published abstracts, to papers in journals that are indexed in the major bibliographic databases (Smith 1999). We refer to Chapter 10 of the Cochrane Handbook.
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