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1. Trial in a Vacuum: Study of Studies Shows Few Citations.

Author

Kolata, Gina

Subjects
*CLINICAL trials, *CLINICAL medicine, *MEDICAL experimentation on humans, *MEDICAL research
Abstract

Science, so the story goes, is a meticulously built edifice. Discoveries balance on ones that preceded them. Research is stimulated by studies that went on before. But what, then, can explain the findings by two investigators at Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine? The researchers, Karen A. Robinson and Dr. Steven N. Goodman, looked at how often published papers on clinical trials in medicine cite previous clinical trials addressing the same question. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Published
2011