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Description: In the present study, we would like to get more insight into publication bias by examining it at the author, reviewer, and editor level simultaneously. Hence, we will focus on academics who are authors, reviewers, and editors in order to see where exactly and to what extent in the process of generating a scientific paper publication bias occurs. Additionally, we would like to make a direct comparison between publication bias induced by authors, reviewers, and editors. We will explicitly focus on whether statistically significant findings have a greater likelihood of being published than statistically non-significant findings. This all gives rise to the following research question: To what extent do authors, reviewers, and editors contribute to publication bias in scientific literature?