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ArticleBMJ (Clinical research ed.)2007

Open letter to the leader of academic medicine.

John P A Ioannidis, Tahmeed Ahmed, Shally Awasthi, A Mark Clarfield, Jocalyn Clark, Lalit Dandona, Amanda Howe, Juan M Lozano, Youping Li, Hardi Madani and 11 more

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Article in BMJ (Clinical research ed.), 2007. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 8 papers.

0numbers the graph read from it
0cells of the map it votes in
8citing papers in PubMed
–field-weighted citation impact
1 · What the graph read from it

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.

2 · The registry

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.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

8 citing papers in PubMed.

  1. Journal editors and academic medicine.Croatian medical journal · 2022
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  4. Thwarted by bureaucracy.BMJ (Clinical research ed.) · 2007
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  5. Time for a scientific social network.BMJ (Clinical research ed.) · 2007
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  6. Academia needs to acknowledge the needs of trainees.BMJ (Clinical research ed.) · 2007
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  7. Academic medicine. Who should call the tune?BMJ (Clinical research ed.) · 2007
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  8. Academic medicine. UK response.BMJ (Clinical research ed.) · 2007
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

21 authors.

John P A IoannidisDepartment of Hygiene and Epidemiology, University of Ioannina School of Medicine, Ioannina 45110, Greece. jioannid@cc.uoi.gr
Tahmeed Ahmed
Shally Awasthi
A Mark Clarfield
Jocalyn Clark
Lalit Dandona
Amanda Howe
Juan M Lozano
Youping Li
Hardi Madani
Ana Marusic
Idris Mohammed
Gretchen P Purcell
Margaret Rhoads
Karen Sliwa-Hähnle
Sharon E Straus
Tessa Tan-Torres Edejer
Peter Tugwell
Robyn Ward
Michael S Wilkes
Richard Smith

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

PubMed holds no abstract for this paper.

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Biomedical ResearchGlobal HealthProfessional-Patient RelationsResearch Personnel

Identifiers

PMID17255613
PMCPMC1782025

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Registered trials

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