Evidence map›Paper›PMID 22737067›Full record

ReviewPLoS pathogens2012

Malassezia fungi are specialized to live on skin and associated with dandruff, eczema, and other skin diseases.

Charles W Saunders, Annika Scheynius, Joseph Heitman

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In one paragraph

Review in PLoS pathogens, 2012. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 97 papers.

0numbers the graph read from it
0cells of the map it votes in
97citing papers in PubMed
7.8field-weighted citation impact, top 2% of its field
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

97 citing papers in PubMed, 222 citations in OpenAlex.

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37 more citing papers are in PubMed but not listed here.

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

3 authors at 3 institutions in 2 countries.

Charles W SaundersProcter and Gamble Beauty Science, Miami Valley Innovation Center, Cincinnati, Ohio, United States of America. saunders.cw@pg.com
Annika Scheynius
Joseph Heitman
Duke Medical Center · USKarolinska Institutet · SEProcter & Gamble (United States) · US

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

PubMed holds no abstract for this paper.

Indexed as

AnimalsDermatomycosesEczemaHost-Parasite InteractionsHumansMalasseziaPhylogenyScalp Dermatoses

Identifiers

PMID22737067
PMCPMC3380954
OpenAlexW1970619882

What OpenQuestion holds

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Registered trials

None linked

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.