ArticlePLoS medicine2015
Four Proposals to Help Improve the Medical Research Literature.
Article in PLoS medicine, 2015. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 28 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.
What it found
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Who cites it
28 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.
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Authors and funding
2 authors.
Funding
Abstract
David Moher and Douglas Altman outline four potential interventions that may improve the quality of peer-reviewed medical research publications.
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