ArticleAnnals of the Royal College of Surgeons of England2015
Is the impact factor the only game in town?
Article in Annals of the Royal College of Surgeons of England, 2015. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 6 papers.
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.
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Who cites it
6 citing papers in PubMed.
- Publications of systematic review and meta-analysis in the indexed anesthesia journals: a 10-year bibliometric analysis.Frontiers in medicine · 2025Review
- The Journal of Manual and Manipulative Therapy now has a Clarivate impact factor and is ranked Q2 in Physical Therapy, Sports Therapy, and Rehabilitation Journals.The Journal of manual & manipulative therapy · 2023Article
- Bibliometric evaluation of Forensic Science International as a scholarly journal within the subject category legal medicine.Forensic science international. Synergy · 2023Article
- Relationship between an editor in chief's commentary publications and the impact factor of cardiovascular medicine journals.Journal of the Medical Library Association : JMLA · 2021Article
- Impact, impact, impact.Journal of hip preservation surgery · 2018Article
- Best practices for scholarly authors in the age of predatory journals.Annals of the Royal College of Surgeons of England · 2016Article
Corrections and comments
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Authors and funding
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Abstract
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Registered trials
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