New metadata linking improves transparency in clinical trials, indicating better oversight of relevant publications.
We will shortly be adding a new feature to Crossmark. In a section called "Clinical Trials" we will be using new metadata fields to link together all of the publications we know about that reference a particular clinical trial. Most medical journals make clinical trial registration a prerequisite for publication.
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Kirsty Meddings (2016) studied this question.
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