Language bias in neuroscience—is the Tower of Babel located in Germany?
- 1 June 2004
- journal article
- Published by Cambridge University Press (CUP) in European Psychiatry
- Vol. 19 (4), 230-232
- https://doi.org/10.1016/j.eurpsy.2003.09.011
Abstract
In internal medicine German authors tend to publish randomized controlled trials (RCTs) with non-significant findings in German journals, RCTs with significant findings in international journals. In the neurosciences a similar trend was seen but the findings were not statistically significant. The reason for this inconclusive finding might be the low number of RCTs published in German.Keywords
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