The total number of articles found in each search of article type, journal and year (e.g., RCTs in N Engl J Med in 2005) was used to generate the randomization for that group.
No restriction was made on the type (journal, conference paper or dissertation) or language of publication.
Fields recorded for each of the 68 trials include: inclusion/exclusion, %CR, %PR, cancer type, drug type, journal citation etc.
Examination of the impact of publication type (journal vs. non-journal documents) on the availability of feasibility information however revealed that non-journal documents provided information about significantly more feasibility criteria than journal articles (t(116) = 3.56, p=0.001).
4. Tiny Moleskine-type journals.
This has lead not only to the advent of open access publishers, such as BioMed Central, and online repository-type journals such as the PLoS ONE (part of the Public Library of Science and the biggest journal in the world, with 23,468 papers published in 2012), but also to the flourishing of "open access" practices.
Corpus collection: to gain a better understanding of the variety of deposition statements across data types, journals and databases, we compiled a corpus of deposition statements based on previous work by Piwowar and Chapman (2008a) and Ochsner et al. (2008) that we extended.
29 This measurement did not differ by journal type (general journal, 69%95%5% confidence interval 57% to 81%); specialty journal, 74% (63% to 85%); P=0.5) or funding source (public funding, 67% (74% to 79%); private funding, 79%67%to90% 90%); P=0.2).
"That's the merit of a discussion-type journal," he said.
While publication of an electronic, letter-type journal was also included in the original development plan of AOGS, starting a new journal was not an easy task.
