P-hacking

J Contemp Dent Pract. 2017 Aug 1;18(8):633-634. doi: 10.5005/jp-journals-10024-2097.

Abstract

Due to increasing rate of research articles getting published in recent times, medical science is evolving very fast. Open access policies of the journals make information easily available to the stakeholders for building future research proposal. Blindly having faith in whatever is published in the literature is detrimental for science; however, it is hard to find out the correctness of the data analysis.

MeSH terms

  • Bibliometrics*
  • Dental Research / ethics*
  • Ethics, Dental*
  • Ethics, Research*
  • Humans
  • Publishing*
  • Research Design*
  • Statistics as Topic / ethics*