Evidence map›Paper›PMID 25552946›Full record

ArticleJournal of the Medical Library Association : JMLA2015

Into the gray: a modified approach to citation analysis to better understand research impact.

Shannon L Sibbald, Jennifer C D MacGregor, Marisa Surmacz, C Nadine Wathen

Abstract read
In one paragraph

Article in Journal of the Medical Library Association : JMLA, 2015. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 7 papers, 2 of them syntheses that pooled it.

0numbers the graph read from it
0cells of the map it votes in
7citing papers in PubMed, 2 pooled it
–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

7 citing papers in PubMed, 2 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.

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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

4 authors.

Shannon L SibbaldShannon L. Sibbald, PhD (corresponding author), ssibbald@uwo.ca , Faculty of Health Sciences and Schulich Interfaculty Program in Public Health; Jennifer C. D. MacGregor, PhD, jmacgre9@uwo.ca , Faculty of Health Sciences and Faculty of Information & Media Studies; Marisa Surmacz, MLIS, marisa.surmacz@uwo.ca , Western Libraries; C. Nadine Wathen, PhD, nwathen@uwo.ca , Faculty of Information & Media Studies; Western University, 1151 Richmond Street, London, ON Canada.
Jennifer C D MacGregorShannon L. Sibbald, PhD (corresponding author), ssibbald@uwo.ca , Faculty of Health Sciences and Schulich Interfaculty Program in Public Health; Jennifer C. D. MacGregor, PhD, jmacgre9@uwo.ca , Faculty of Health Sciences and Faculty of Information & Media Studies; Marisa Surmacz, MLIS, marisa.surmacz@uwo.ca , Western Libraries; C. Nadine Wathen, PhD, nwathen@uwo.ca , Faculty of Information & Media Studies; Western University, 1151 Richmond Street, London, ON Canada.
Marisa SurmaczShannon L. Sibbald, PhD (corresponding author), ssibbald@uwo.ca , Faculty of Health Sciences and Schulich Interfaculty Program in Public Health; Jennifer C. D. MacGregor, PhD, jmacgre9@uwo.ca , Faculty of Health Sciences and Faculty of Information & Media Studies; Marisa Surmacz, MLIS, marisa.surmacz@uwo.ca , Western Libraries; C. Nadine Wathen, PhD, nwathen@uwo.ca , Faculty of Information & Media Studies; Western University, 1151 Richmond Street, London, ON Canada.
C Nadine WathenShannon L. Sibbald, PhD (corresponding author), ssibbald@uwo.ca , Faculty of Health Sciences and Schulich Interfaculty Program in Public Health; Jennifer C. D. MacGregor, PhD, jmacgre9@uwo.ca , Faculty of Health Sciences and Faculty of Information & Media Studies; Marisa Surmacz, MLIS, marisa.surmacz@uwo.ca , Western Libraries; C. Nadine Wathen, PhD, nwathen@uwo.ca , Faculty of Information & Media Studies; Western University, 1151 Richmond Street, London, ON Canada.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

PubMed holds no abstract for this paper.

Indexed as

Journal Impact FactorPeriodicals as TopicAlgorithmsBibliometricsBiomedical ResearchHumansInformation Storage and RetrievalMedical Subject HeadingsUser-Computer Interface

Identifiers

PMID25552946
PMCPMC4279935

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.