Posted by europerep on October 14, 2010, at 14:34:30
ok, this only relates to meds indirectly, but I think it's more appropriate here than anywhere else..
surely you all know how a kid might ask why exactly as many things happen on a given day as will fit into the newspaper of tomorrow.. and the answer is of course that the newspaper selects its news. now one might ask why exactly the amount of scientific articles is being written as will fit into weekly/monthly/etc. scientific journals out there, and of course these journals do their selecting too.. I remember a JCP issue where there was a list of all the reviewers, who were said to sift through hundreds of articles for each issue, in order to choose the most interesting 5 or 6 or 7 of them.. in scientific databases like sciencedirect.com, one can almost exclusively access published articles. so what happens with all the articles that are not being published? I am not refering to clinical studies whose results are not being released by a pharma company (like in the reboxetine thread above), but about "regular" studies, by university groups, that just don't make it into a journal. do they appear on PubMed, or somewhere else? does anybody know anything about that?
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