Global information flow.

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

Who cites it

13 citing papers in PubMed.

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4. Achieving open access to conservation science.Conservation biology : the journal of the Society for Conservation Biology · 2014
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5. Smart article: a scientific crosstalk.Frontiers in physiology · 2013
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6. The process and costs of publishing medical journals in Sri Lanka: an economic evaluation.BMJ open · 2011
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7. The North-South information highway: case studies of publication access among health researchers in resource-poor countries.Global health action · 2008
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8. For richer for poorer.BMJ (Clinical research ed.) · 2007
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9. HINARI: bridging the global information divide.BMJ (Clinical research ed.) · 2004
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10. Closing the digital divide.BMJ (Clinical research ed.) · 2003
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11. BMJ journals free to the developing world.BMJ (Clinical research ed.) · 2002
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12. Vision is needed to address problem of global health information.BMJ (Clinical research ed.) · 2001
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13. Information gaps have the same causes as wealth gaps.BMJ (Clinical research ed.) · 2000
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Corrections and comments

• Commented on by
  Information gaps have the same causes as wealth gaps.2000
• Commented on by
  Vision is needed to address problem of global health information.2001
• Comment on
  Disseminating health information in developing countries: the role of the internet.2000

Authors and funding

3 authors.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

Abstract

PubMed holds no abstract for this paper.

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