Anesthesiologist Gildasio Deoliveira, MD, and Robert McCarthy, PharmD, looked at 1,169 studies published in 14 anesthesia journals between 2008 and 2009. They found that journals with higher impact factors — a measurement that calculates a journal’s level of influence on a particular field — were more likely to publish positive studies.
Positive findings were at least 2.67 times more likely to appear in journals with higher impact factors, according to the report.
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