Maturitas
Volume 57, Issue 1 , Pages 16-19 , 20 May 2007

Do journals have a publication bias?

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doi: 10.1016/j.maturitas.2007.02.004

Maturitas
Volume 57, Issue 1 , Pages 16-19 , 20 May 2007

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