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"For decades people have known that negative results tend not to get printed in academic journals, and it can happen for all kinds of reasons: they're not newsworthy, they're not much fun to write up, they don't look good on your CV, and they might not flatter your idea or product".*
The Credibility in Neuroscience programme is supporting the end to 'high impact storytelling'. All researchers should feel able to share all of their research findings from well conducted studies - positive, negative or otherwise.
We are promoting the use of Preregistration
(including the Registered Report publication format) to academic researchers to encourage transparent reporting of all research outcomes and help safeguard against questionable research practices (e.g., p-hacking and HARKing).
The clinical research community are well-versed in Preregistration and many funders and research organisations insist that clinical trials must be registered (e.g., on ClinicalTrials.gov). Despite this, the clinical literature is rife with publication bias – “studies with significant or positive results are more likely to be published than those with non-significant or negative results” [1].
How can the clinical community help?
The AllTrials
campaign is calling for “all past and present clinical trials to be registered and their results reported”.
So far, over 95,000 people and over 700 organisations have signed the AllTrials petition
which requests that governments, regulators and research bodies implement measures to achieve transparent reporting.
For more information on AllTrials and how to get involved in the campaign go to http://www.alltrials.net/.
Do one thing - publish all results
*Ben Goldacre. Opinion piece
in The Guardian, 2008
[1] Health Technology Assessment, 2010; Volume: 14. Dissemination and publication of research findings: an updated review of related biases. https://doi.org/10.3310/hta14080