According to "uniform requirements for manuscripts submitted to biomedical journals: Writing and editing for biomedical publication 2010" on the obligation to publish negative studies, it is stated that refusal to showcase any study with the negative outcome is a form of bias in research, your opinion?
Reference:
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5696751/
“Dealing with the positive publication bias: Why you should really publish your negative results”:
Studies with positive results are greatly more represented in literature than studies with negative results, producing so-called publication bias. Underreporting of negative results introduces bias into meta-analysis, which consequently misinforms researchers, doctors and policymakers. More resources are potentially wasted on already disputed research that remains unpublished and therefore unavailable to the scientific community. Ethical obligations need to be considered when reporting results of studies on human subjects as people have exposed themselves to risk with the assurance that the study is performed to benefit others. Some studies disprove the common conception that journal editors preferably publish positive findings, which are considered as more citable. Therefore, all stakeholders, but especially researchers, need to be conscious of disseminating negative and positive findings alike.
Hassan Izzeddin Sarsak Prof., thank you for this inclusive and all-encompassing information.
Do they/you mean negative outcome from the intervention, i.e., unfavorable effect, or negative outcome of the study, i.e., non-significant difference or ratio?
Negative results are just as equally important as positive ones. Negative results may be of two forms (1) a proposed intervention causes more harm than good, and (2) the proposed intervention has no statistically significant improvement over the existing intervention method or placebo.
Muhammad M Hammami the statement refers to any study without significant difference statistically, and not limiting to intervention alone and is credited to the association as mentioned. It is not limited to a study type.
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