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ArticleInfection and immunity2009

Important science--it's all about the SPIN.

Arturo Casadevall, Ferric C Fang

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Article in Infection and immunity, 2009. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 16 papers.

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0cells of the map it votes in
16citing papers in PubMed
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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

16 citing papers in PubMed.

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  2. Elegant Science.mBio · 2018
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  6. (A)Historical science.Infection and immunity · 2015
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  8. Increasing disparities between resource inputs and outcomes, as measured by certain health deliverables, in biomedical research.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2015
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  12. Specialized science.Infection and immunity · 2014
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  13. Review
  14. Retracted science and the retraction index.Infection and immunity · 2011
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  15. Reproducible science.Infection and immunity · 2010
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  16. Review
4 · The record

Corrections and comments

PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

2 authors.

Arturo Casadevall
Ferric C Fang

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The importance of a scientific finding can be difficult to ascertain because it requires both subjective judgment and foresight. We propose criteria, based upon whether a discovery is sizeable (S), practical (P), integrated (I), and new (N), that can be used individually or collectively to systematically assess the importance of a finding.

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Biomedical ResearchHumansScience

Identifiers

PMID19635821
PMCPMC2747952

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Registered trials

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Read under generation 80e0d062 · epoch 390. Bibliography from PubMed, PubMed Central and OpenAlex; grants from NIH RePORTER; trial links from ClinicalTrials.gov; estimates, votes and beliefs from the OpenQuestion graph.