Research is stimulated that by previous studies . So then what explains the finding of 2 John Hopkins researchers, Karen A. Robinson and Dr. Steven N. Goodman, how looked at how often clinical research studies cite previous findings.
They report in the Jan. 4 issue of Annals of Internal Medicine what Dr. Goodman describes as “a rather shocking result.” He summarizes: “No matter how many randomized clinical trials have been done on a particular topic, about half the clinical trials cite none or only one of them.“As cynical as I am about such things, I didn’t realize the situation was this bad,” Dr. Goodman said. It seems, Dr. Goodman said in an e-mail, that “either everyone thinks their study is really unique (when others thought it wasn’t), or they want to unjustifiably claim originality, or they just don’t know how or want to look.
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Source: New York Times
