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ArticleBritish journal of clinical pharmacology2016

Organised crime against the academic peer review system.

Adam Cohen, Smita Pattanaik, Praveen Kumar, Robert R Bies, Anthonius de Boer, Albert Ferro, Annette Gilchrist, Geoffrey K Isbister, Sarah Ross, Andrew J Webb

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Article in British journal of clinical pharmacology, 2016. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. An erratum has been issued. Cited by 9 papers.

0numbers the graph read from it
0cells of the map it votes in
9citing papers in PubMed
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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

9 citing papers in PubMed.

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  3. Goodbye to all that.British journal of clinical pharmacology · 2019
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  4. Analysis of retracted articles on medicines administered to humans.British journal of clinical pharmacology · 2019
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  6. Peer review in Clinical Pharmacology using the 8-D Assessment.International journal of clinical pharmacology and therapeutics · 2017
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  7. You lookin' at me?British journal of clinical pharmacology · 2016
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  8. Erratum.British journal of clinical pharmacology · 2016
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  9. Organised crime against the academic peer review system.British journal of clinical pharmacology · 2016
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

10 authors.

Adam CohenCentre for Human Drug Research, Leiden, 2333 CL, The Netherlands.ORCID 0000-0001-7452-6222
Smita PattanaikPGIMER Pharmacology 4015, Research block B, PGIMER, Chandigarh, 160012, India.
Praveen KumarChandigarh Room number 4019, Research block B, Department of Pharmacology, PGIMER, Chandigarh, 160012, India.
Robert R BiesDepartment of Pharmaceutical sciences, State University of New York Buffalo, Buffalo, New York, 14214-8033, USA.
Anthonius de BoerPharmacoepidemiology and Clinical Pharmacology, Utrecht Institute for Pharmaceutical Sciences, Utrecht University, the Netherlands.
Albert FerroDepartment of Clinical Pharmacology, King's College London, London, SE1 9NH, UK.
Annette GilchristPharmaceutical Sciences, Midwestern University, Downers Grove, Illinois, 60515, USA.ORCID 0000-0003-2386-7646
Geoffrey K IsbisterClinical Toxicology Research Group, University of Newcastle, Newcastle, New South Wales, 2298, Australia.
Sarah RossPerth Royal Infirmary, Perth, PH1 1NX, UK.ORCID 0000-0002-2302-8415
Andrew J WebbCardiovascular Division, Department of Clinical Pharmacology, King's College London British Heart Foundation Centre, London, SE1 7EH, UK.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

PubMed holds no abstract for this paper.

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Identifiers

PMID27211251
PMCPMC4876186

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Registered trials

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