Preprint Déjà Vu.

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.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

Who cites it

12 citing papers in PubMed.

1. The Story behind the Science: Preprints of pandemic potential-how bioRxiv and medRxiv brought preprints to the life sciences.mBio · 2026
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2. Biomedical publishing: Past historic, present continuous, future conditional.PLoS biology · 2023
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3. The experiences of COVID-19 preprint authors: a survey of researchers about publishing and receiving feedback on their work during the pandemic.PeerJ · 2023
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4. The rise of preprints in earth sciences.F1000Research · 2023
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5. Attitudes and practices of open data, preprinting, and peer-review-A cross sectional study on Croatian scientists.PloS one · 2021
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6. Peer review and preprint policies are unclear at most major journals.PloS one · 2020
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7. The limitations to our understanding of peer review.Research integrity and peer review · 2020
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8. Preprints and Scholarly Communication: Adoption, Practices, Drivers and Barriers.F1000Research · 2019
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9. The state of the art in peer review.FEMS microbiology letters · 2018
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10. The prehistory of biology preprints: A forgotten experiment from the 1960s.PLoS biology · 2017
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11. Ten simple rules to consider regarding preprint submission.PLoS computational biology · 2017
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12. Preparing for Preprints.The EMBO journal · 2016
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Corrections and comments

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Authors and funding

1 author.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

Abstract

PubMed holds no abstract for this paper.