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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

8 citing papers in PubMed.

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4. Uptake and outcome of manuscripts in Nature journals by review model and author characteristics.Research integrity and peer review · 2018
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5. Overflow in science and its implications for trust.eLife · 2015
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6. Paper-trail index: Can a metric that captures a paper's history of submission and rejection give insight into its value and encourage good authorship practices?EMBO reports · 2015
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Corrections and comments

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  Publishing: Double-blind peer review a double risk.2015
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  Redesign open science for Asia, Africa and Latin America.2020

Authors and funding

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Funding

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Abstract

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