It is true that cash-strapped newspapers have studied their editorial budgets more closely and there has been greater pressure on reporting teams to produce results more quickly.
Related sites The Berwick et al. study The Ekström Smedby et al. study Editorial from JNCI Information about melanoma.
Articles excluded from analysis were observational studies, qualitative studies, editorial commentary, letters and book chapters.
FSH: Initiation and coordination of the study, editorial and revision of draft papers, translation of draft papers and writing the manuscript, SM: Data collection and writing the first draft.
While our classification schema is only one of many possible perspectives, with overlapping categories, and the coding of individual phrases is subjective, our goal was to group editorial commentary in a way that would help future researchers to study the editorial process, rather than to identify "the truth".
MN contributed to study design, editorial review and data analysis.
Unless there was a clear description of the original data and baseline statistics, systematic reviews, qualitative studies, study protocols, (editorial) letters, case reports and randomised controlled trials (RCTs) were excluded.
Cross-sectional studies, editorials, commentaries, letters without original data and case reports were not included.
Review studies, editorials, and abstracts of congresses were excluded.
All studies were original research and peer-reviewed; meta-analyses, case studies, editorials, opinion papers, and review articles were excluded.
