TY - JOUR T1 - SPin and boasting in research articles AU - Cummings P, Rivara FP Y1 - 2012/12/01 N1 - 10.1001/archpediatrics.2012.1461 JO - Archives of Pediatrics & Adolescent Medicine SP - 1099 EP - 1100 VL - 166 IS - 12 N2 - Some authors exaggerate the importance of their research and unfairly denigrate other studies. This occurs only in a minority of articles we review but is frequent enough that we have collected examples and grouped them into categories. We confess to committing some of these literary sins ourselves; improving writing is a lifelong process. SN - 1072-4710 M3 - doi: 10.1001/archpediatrics.2012.1461 UR - http://dx.doi.org/10.1001/archpediatrics.2012.1461 ER -