Evidence map›Paper›PMID 27306172›Full record

ArticleNature2016

Nutrition: Fall in fish catch threatens human health.

Christopher D Golden, Edward H Allison, William W L Cheung, Madan M Dey, Benjamin S Halpern, Douglas J McCauley, Matthew Smith, Bapu Vaitla, Dirk Zeller, Samuel S Myers

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Article in Nature, 2016. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 138 papers, 2 of them syntheses that pooled it.

0numbers the graph read from it
0cells of the map it votes in
138citing papers in PubMed, 2 pooled it
39.8field-weighted citation impact, top 1% of its field
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

138 citing papers in PubMed, 2 syntheses or guidelines pooled it, 615 citations in OpenAlex.

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78 more citing papers are in PubMed but not listed here.

4 · The record

Corrections and comments

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

10 authors at 5 institutions in 2 countries.

Christopher D GoldenDepartment of Environmental Health, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health; and associate director of the Planetary Health Alliance at the Harvard University Center for the Environment, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA.
Edward H AllisonSchool of Marine and Environment Affairs at the University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, USA.
William W L CheungChanging Ocean Research Unit; and director of the Nippon Foundation-Nereus Program, Institute for the Oceans and Fisheries, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada.
Madan M DeyAquaculture/Fisheries Center of Excellence, University of Arkansas at Pine Bluff, Pine Bluff, Arkansas, USA.
Benjamin S HalpernBren School of Environmental Science and Management, University of California, Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, California, USA.
Douglas J McCauleyDepartment of Ecology, Evolution and Marine Biology, University of California, Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, California, USA.
Matthew SmithDepartment of Environmental Health, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Harvard University, Boston, Massachusetts, USA.
Bapu VaitlaDepartment of Environmental Health, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Harvard University, Boston, Massachusetts, USA.
Dirk ZellerSea Around Us, Global Fisheries Cluster, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada.
Samuel S MyersDepartment of Environmental Health, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health; and director of the Planetary Health Alliance at the Harvard University Center for the Environment, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA.
Harvard University · USUniversity of British Columbia · CAUniversity of California, Santa Barbara · USUniversity of Arkansas at Pine Bluff · USUniversity of Washington · US

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

PubMed holds no abstract for this paper.

Indexed as

Nutritional StatusAnimalsAquacultureChild, PreschoolDeveloping CountriesFemaleFisheriesFishesFood SupplyHumansMaleMalnutritionMicronutrientsPopulation DynamicsMicronutrients

Identifiers

PMID27306172
OpenAlexW2439063595

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Registered trials

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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.