About the Authors
- Hilda Bastian
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* E-mail: Hilda.bastian@iqwig.de
Affiliation German Institute for Quality and Efficiency in Health Care (IQWiG), Cologne, Germany
- Paul Glasziou
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Affiliation Centre for Research in Evidence-Based Practice, Faculty of Health Sciences, Bond University, Gold Coast, Australia
- Iain Chalmers
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Affiliation James Lind Library, James Lind Initiative, Oxford, United Kingdom
Competing Interests
HB works for a health technology assessment agency.
Author Contributions
ICMJE criteria for authorship read and met: HB PG IC. Agree with the manuscript's results and conclusions: HB PG IC. Designed the experiments/the study: HB. Analyzed the data: HB. Collected data/did experiments for the study: HB. Wrote the first draft of the paper: HB. Contributed to the writing of the paper: PG IC. Conceived the idea, participated in searching, data collection, and analysis for both the historical and publication trends: HB. Guarantor for the article: HB. Searched and analyzed publication trends: PG. Participated in the searching and analysis of historical trends: IC.