title: Authors are also reviewers: problems in assigning cause for missing negative studies.
abstract: I COMPARE TWO POSSIBLE EXTREME HYPOTHESES REGARDING SUBMISSION OF PAPERS TO JOURNALS: the Q hypothesis, whereby the decision to submit is based on quality of research; and the P hypothesis, whereby it is based on probability of acceptance. I give five reasons as to why the P hypothesis is more plausible and suggest that problems of missing data may previously have caused researchers to misinterpret the evidence on editorial bias.
authors.affiliation: Competence Center for Methodology and Statistics, Centre de Recherches Sante, Strassen, Luxembourg, Luxembourg.
authors.forename: Stephen
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Senn