Journal of Clinical Epidemiology
Volume 63, Issue 6 , Pages 660-664 , June 2010

Citation analysis of identical consensus statements revealed journal-related bias

  • Thomas V. Perneger

      Affiliations

    • Corresponding Author InformationCorresponding author. Division of Clinical Epidemiology, University Hospitals of Geneva, 2 rue Gabrielle Perret-Gentil, CH-1211 Geneva, Switzerland. Tel.: +41-22-372-9037; fax: +41-22-372-9035.

,Accepted 30 September 2009.

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 Competing interests: The author has no conflict of interest related to this article.

 Contributions: T.V.P. conceived the idea of the study, performed the data retrieval and analysis, interpreted the results, and wrote the article.

 Funding: The study received no specific funding.

 Data access: T.V.P. had full access to all the data in the study and takes responsibility for the integrity of the data and the accuracy of the data analysis.

 Ethics committee approval: Approval was not sought.

PII: S0895-4356(09)00312-6

doi: 10.1016/j.jclinepi.2009.09.012

Journal of Clinical Epidemiology
Volume 63, Issue 6 , Pages 660-664 , June 2010

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