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Being influential or being misleading? Citation bias in psychiatric research and practice

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  11 January 2018

A. Fiorillo*
Affiliation:
Department of Psychiatry, University of Campania ‘Luigi Vanvitelli’, Naples, Italy
M. Luciano
Affiliation:
Department of Psychiatry, University of Campania ‘Luigi Vanvitelli’, Naples, Italy
G. Sampogna
Affiliation:
Department of Psychiatry, University of Campania ‘Luigi Vanvitelli’, Naples, Italy
*
*Address for correspondence: Department of Psychiatry, University of Campania ‘Luigi Vanvitelli’, Naples, Italy. (Email: [email protected])

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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 2018 

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