Improving publication rates in a collaborative clinical trials research network

Unpublished results can bias biomedical literature, favoring positive over negative findings, primary over secondary analyses, and can lead to duplicate studies that unnecessarily endanger subjects and waste resources. The Neonatal Research Networkʼs (NRN) publication policies for approving, reviewing, and tracking abstracts and papers work to combat these problems. In 2003, the NRN restricted investigators with unfinished manuscripts from proposing new ones and in 2010, urged authors to complete long-outstanding manuscripts.

Source: Seminars in Perinatology - July 12, 2016 Category: Perinatology & Neonatology Authors: Stephanie Wilson Archer, Waldemar A. Carlo, William E. Truog, David K. Stevenson, Krisa P. Van Meurs, Pablo J. Sánchez, Abhik Das, Uday Devaskar, Leif D. Nelin, Carolyn M. Petrie Huitema, Margaret M. Crawford, Rosemary D. Higgins, for the Eunice Kennedy Source Type: research