Report for: Time to publication for results of clinical trials

Title	Time to publication for results of clinical trials
Published in	Cochrane database of systematic reviews, April 2007
DOI	10.1002/14651858.mr000011.pub2
Pubmed ID	17443632
Authors	Sally Hopewell, Mike J Clarke, Lesley Stewart, Jayne Tierney
Abstract	It has been suggested that a time-lag bias exists whereby research studies with striking results are more likely to be stopped earlier than originally planned, published quicker, or both. If time-lag bias exists, new interventions might be mistakenly assumed to be effective.

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Geographical breakdown

Country	Count	As %
Japan	2	50%
Unknown	2	50%

Demographic breakdown

Type	Count	As %
Members of the public	4	100%

Mendeley readers

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Country	Count	As %
Canada	2	1%
United States	2	1%
United Kingdom	1	<1%
Spain	1	<1%
Germany	1	<1%
Unknown	128	95%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status	Count	As %
Student > Ph. D. Student	26	19%
Student > Master	23	17%
Student > Bachelor	14	10%
Other	9	7%
Professor > Associate Professor	9	7%
Other	32	24%
Unknown	22	16%

Readers by discipline	Count	As %
Medicine and Dentistry	48	36%
Social Sciences	11	8%
Agricultural and Biological Sciences	9	7%
Psychology	8	6%
Nursing and Health Professions	7	5%
Other	22	16%
Unknown	30	22%

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 14. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 29 October 2020.

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#2,266,376

of 23,133,982 outputs

Outputs from Cochrane database of systematic reviews

#4,818

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Outputs of similar age

#5,199

of 74,660 outputs

Outputs of similar age from Cochrane database of systematic reviews

#14

of 56 outputs

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So far Altmetric has tracked 12,377 research outputs from this source. They typically receive a lot more attention than average, with a mean Attention Score of 32.4. This one has gotten more attention than average, scoring higher than 61% of its peers.

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Time to publication for results of clinical trials

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