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Christmas 2015: The Publication Game
Snowballing citations
BMJ 2015; 351 doi: https://doi.org/10.1136/bmj.h6309 (Published 14 December 2015) Cite this as: BMJ 2015;351:h6309
- Helen H G Handoll, senior research fellow,
- Greg Atkinson, professor of health sciences and biostatistics research
- 1Health and Social Care Institute, Teesside University, Middlesbrough TS1 3BA, UK
- Correspondence to: H H G Handoll h.handoll{at}tees.ac.uk
In August 2015, one of us (HHGH) received an unsolicited email from the publishing company Elsevier announcing a citation of her short letter published in 2006.1 The letter had attempted to correct a considerable overestimate of the number of Cochrane reviews on rehabilitation …
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