Dear readers,
The Journal of Clinical and Translational Research (JCTR) is organizing a special issue on negative results obtained in ex vivo and in vivo research as well as in clinical trials.
I would like to ask you and your colleagues/students to consider submitting important negative results to our special issue.
The focus of the special issue will not so much be on why it is important to publish negative data. Instead, we want to do what most journals refrain from doing, and that is to give the advocacy an actual follow-up by publishing robust studies with negative findings.
The special issue will be edited by Brian Earp (Associate Director of the Yale-Hastings Program in Ethics & Health Policy; Departments of Psychology and Philosophy, Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut, United States) and Emma Bruns (Department of Surgery, Academic Medical Center, University of Amsterdam). Two editorials have been prepared to introduce and conclude the special issue, which can be found here:
The need for reporting negative results - a 90 year update
The publication symmetry test: a simple editorial heuristic to combat publication bias
The papers in JCTR can be submitted in any format (your paper, your way) and the submission processes can generally be completed in a few minutes via the editorial manager. There are no technical requirements, so short papers are also welcome. All papers will undergo peer review, and will be published free of charge upon acceptance.
An example of a recently published special issue can be found here.
We are very much looking forward to receiving your papers.
Kindest regards,
Michal Heger, PhD
Editor-in-chief, JCTR
