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Language bias in neuroscience—is the Tower of Babel located in Germany?

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  16 April 2020

S. Heres ,
S. Wagenpfeil ,
J. Hamann ,
W. Kissling  and
S. Leucht
S. Heres*
Affiliation:
Psychiatrische Klinik und Poliklinik der Technischen Universitaet Muenchen Klinikum rechts der Isar, Ismaningerstr. 22, Munich 81675, Germany
S. Wagenpfeil
Affiliation:
Psychiatrische Klinik und Poliklinik der Technischen Universitaet Muenchen Klinikum rechts der Isar, Ismaningerstr. 22, Munich 81675, Germany
J. Hamann
Affiliation:
Psychiatrische Klinik und Poliklinik der Technischen Universitaet Muenchen Klinikum rechts der Isar, Ismaningerstr. 22, Munich 81675, Germany
W. Kissling
Affiliation:
Psychiatrische Klinik und Poliklinik der Technischen Universitaet Muenchen Klinikum rechts der Isar, Ismaningerstr. 22, Munich 81675, Germany
S. Leucht
Affiliation:
Psychiatrische Klinik und Poliklinik der Technischen Universitaet Muenchen Klinikum rechts der Isar, Ismaningerstr. 22, Munich 81675, Germany
*
*Corresponding author. Klinik und Poliklinik fuer Psychiatrie und Psychotherapie des Klinikums rechts der Isar Technische, Universitaet Muenchen, Moehlstraße 26, 81675 Muenchen, Germany. s.heres@lrz.tum.de (S. Heres).
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Abstract

In internal medicine German authors tend to publish randomized controlled trials (RCTs) with non-significant findings in German journals, RCTs with significant findings in international journals. In the neurosciences a similar trend was seen but the findings were not statistically significant. The reason for this inconclusive finding might be the low number of RCTs published in German.

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PsychiatryBias (epidemiology)Randomized controlled trialsPublishingGermanLanguage

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European Psychiatry , Volume 19 , Issue 4 , June 2004 , pp. 230 - 232
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Copyright © European Psychiatric Association 2002

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