ArticlePsychological medicine2018
The cumulative effect of reporting and citation biases on the apparent efficacy of treatments: the case of depression.
Article in Psychological medicine, 2018. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 33 papers, 3 of them syntheses that pooled it.
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Who cites it
33 citing papers in PubMed, 3 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.
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- Comparing the evidential strength for psychotropic drugs: a Bayesian meta-analysis.Psychological medicine · 2021Pooled it
- Guidelines for the pharmacological acute treatment of major depression: conflicts with current evidence as demonstrated with the German S3-guidelines.BMC psychiatry · 2019Pooled it
- A group randomized control trial to test the efficacy of the Road to Mental Readiness (R2MR) program among Canadian military recruits.BMC psychiatry · 2019Trial
- Research integrity and transparency in CAM journals: an analysis of publication bias and reporting practices (1995-2023) in four leading journals.Research integrity and peer review · 2026Review
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- Implementing open science and reproducible research practices in mental health research through registered reports.JCPP advances · 2024Article
- Is waiting for rewards good for you? No association between impulsive choice, psychopathology, and functional outcomes in a large cohort sample.JCPP advances · 2024Article
- Editorial Perspective: Misaligned incentives in mental health research - the case for Registered Reports.Journal of child psychology and psychiatry, and allied disciplines · 2024Article
- A simulation-based analysis of the impact of rhetorical citations in science.Nature communications · 2024Article
- Is biomedical research self-correcting? Modelling insights on the persistence of spurious science.Royal Society open science · 2024Article
- Prosocial motives underlie scientific censorship by scientists: A perspective and research agenda.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2023Article
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- More Treatment, but Not Less Anxiety and Mood Disorders: Why? Seven Hypotheses and Their Evaluation.Psychotherapy and psychosomatics · 2023Article
- Registered report: Survey on attitudes and experiences regarding preregistration in psychological research.PloS one · 2023Article
- How can we optimise learning from trials in child and adolescent mental health?Evidence-based mental health · 2022Article
- Promoting Learning from Null or Negative Results in Prevention Science Trials.Prevention science : the official journal of the Society for Prevention Research · 2022Article
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