The Importance of Publishing Negative Results.

What it found

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The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

Who cites it

14 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.

1. Recording behaviour of indoor-housed farm animals automatically using machine vision technology: A systematic review.PloS one · 2019
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2. Effects of left anodal transcranial direct current stimulation on hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal axis activity in depression: a randomized controlled pilot trial.Scientific reports · 2023
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3. Exploratory proof-of-concept study and failure mode analysis of a dual-lumen stent graft for transapical off-pump LVAD implantation.Scientific reports · 2026
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4. The IBEX knowledge-base a community resource enabling adoption and development of immunofluorescence imaging methods.eLife · 2026
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5. Doctoral theses at the medical faculty of Tunis from 2015 to 2017: Scientific publication rates and associated factors.La Tunisie medicale · 2024
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6. A critical scientific evaluation of a purportedly negative data report - response to Seneviratne et al. 2022.Frontiers in psychiatry · 2023
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7. Reframing the perception of outliers and negative data in translational research.Brain research bulletin · 2023
   Review
8. Monitoring Urban Zoonotic Virus Activity: Are City Rats a Promising Surveillance Tool for Emerging Viruses?Viruses · 2022
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9. Stretching for Recovery from Groin Pain or Injury in Athletes: A Critical and Systematic Review.Journal of functional morphology and kinesiology · 2021
   Review
10. Society for Immunotherapy of Cancer clinical and biomarkers data sharing resource document: Volume I-conceptual challenges.Journal for immunotherapy of cancer · 2020
    Article
11. Why (and how) we should publish negative data.EMBO reports · 2020
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12. On the value of preprints: An early career researcher perspective.PLoS biology · 2019
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13. Is positive publication bias really a bias, or an intentionally created discrimination toward negative results?Saudi journal of anaesthesia
    Review
14. Isotretinoin has no effect on event-free survival across high-risk medulloblastoma molecular groups when added to maintenance: A secondary analysis of the Children's Oncology Group ACNS0332 data.Neuro-oncology advances
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Corrections and comments

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Authors and funding

1 author.

Funding

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Abstract

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