ReviewNeuroImage2017
Is the statistic value all we should care about in neuroimaging?
Review in NeuroImage, 2017. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 94 papers, 4 of them syntheses that pooled it.
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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.
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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
94 citing papers in PubMed, 4 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.
- Which software packages did researchers use to meta-analyze fMRI data? A literature survey from 2019 to 2024.Frontiers in human neuroscience · 2025Pooled it
- Improving the Eligibility of Task-Based fMRI Studies for Meta-Analysis: A Review and Reporting Recommendations.Neuroinformatics · 2024Pooled it
- Highlight results, don't hide them: Enhance interpretation, reduce biases and improve reproducibility.NeuroImage · 2023Pooled it
- Exercise-Induced Neuroplasticity in Parkinson's Disease: A Metasynthesis of the Literature.Neural plasticity · 2020Pooled it
- Amygdala activity after subchronic escitalopram administration in healthy volunteers: A pharmaco-functional magnetic resonance imaging study.Journal of psychopharmacology (Oxford, England) · 2024Trial
- Ultradian rhythmicity of plasma cortisol is necessary for normal emotional and cognitive responses in man.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2018Trial
- Go figure: transparency in neuroscience images preserves context and clarifies interpretation.Nature methods · 2026Review
- Cortical Structures Underlying Schizophrenia and Sex Differences in Preadolescents: An Adolescent Brain Cognitive Development Study.Child psychiatry and human development · 2026Article
- The functional neurobiology of dispositions towards negative emotions.Nature communications · 2026Article
- Common and distinct neural correlates of social interaction processing and theory of mind in narratives.Nature communications · 2026Article
- Early abstinence in severe alcohol use disorder: MCP-1 decline, choroid plexus shrinkage, and region-specific grey-matter volume changes.Translational psychiatry · 2026Article
- Early spatiotemporal dynamics of navigational affordance coding in the dorsal visual cortex.Nature communications · 2026Article
- Feasibility of Integrating Real-Time fMRI Neurofeedback with rTMS: Study Design, Preliminary Results, and Technical Challenges.Aperture neuro · 2026Article
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- Behavioral variant frontotemporal dementia as a model for understanding the cognitive and cerebral determinants of verbal creativity.Behavioral and brain functions : BBF · 2025Article
- The functional neurobiology of negative affective traits across regions, networks, signatures, and a machine learning multiverse.bioRxiv : the preprint server for biology · 2025Article
- Ultrafast fMRI reveals serial queuing of information processing during multitasking in the human brain.Nature communications · 2025Article
- Arousal threshold reveals novel neural markers of sleep depth independently from the conventional sleep stages.bioRxiv : the preprint server for biology · 2025Article
- Intertemporal meditation regulates time perception and emotions: an exploratory fNIRS study.Social cognitive and affective neuroscience · 2025Article
- Opponent visuospatial coding structures responses during memory recall and visual perception in medial parietal cortex.Imaging neuroscience (Cambridge, Mass.) · 2025Article
34 more citing papers are in PubMed but not listed here.
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Abstract
Here we address an important issue that has been embedded within the neuroimaging community for a long time: the absence of effect estimates in results reporting in the literature. The statistic value itself, as a dimensionless measure, does not provide information on the biophysical interpretation of a study, and it certainly does not represent the whole picture of a study. Unfortunately, in contrast to standard practice in most scientific fields, effect (or amplitude) estimates are usually not provided in most results reporting in the current neuroimaging publications and presentations. Possible reasons underlying this general trend include (1) lack of general awareness, (2) software limitations, (3) inaccurate estimation of the BOLD response, and (4) poor modeling due to our relatively limited understanding of FMRI signal components. However, as we discuss here, such reporting damages the reliability and interpretability of the scientific findings themselves, and there is in fact no overwhelming reason for such a practice to persist. In order to promote meaningful interpretation, cross validation, reproducibility, meta and power analyses in neuroimaging, we strongly suggest that, as part of good scientific practice, effect estimates should be reported together with their corresponding statistic values. We provide several easily adaptable recommendations for facilitating this process.
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