No abstract available bias
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No abstract available bias
No abstract available bias, or NAA bias, refers to failures in academic research and academic publishing, whereby researchers will often ignore articles that could have a high degree of relevance, if they do not have an abstract available. When searching for a given phenomenon, often many spurious results are gleaned. This overload of information will likely cause the researcher to discard any returned results that can not be fully qualified – as is the case of a returned article that lacks an abstract. With only the title on which to base the article's relevance, this reduces the search results' value.
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- Murali NS, Murali HR, Auethavekiat P, Erwin PJ, Mandrekar JN, Manek NJ, Ghosh AK. Impact of FUTON and NAA Bias on Visibility of Research. Mayo Clin Proc. 2004;79(8):1001–6. doi:10.4065/79.8.1001. PMID 15301326.
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