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ArticleEBioMedicine2017

Inhibiting Myopia by (Nearly) Invisible Light?

Frank Schaeffel, Earl L Smith

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Article in EBioMedicine, 2017. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 11 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

0numbers the graph read from it
0cells of the map it votes in
11citing papers in PubMed, 1 pooled it
–field-weighted citation impact
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

11 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.

  1. Pooled it
  2. Review
  3. IMI-2025 Digest.Investigative ophthalmology & visual science · 2025
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  4. Review
  5. IMI 2023 Digest.Investigative ophthalmology & visual science · 2023
    Article
  6. Review
  7. IMI - Report on Experimental Models of Emmetropization and Myopia.Investigative ophthalmology & visual science · 2019
    Review
  8. Article
  9. Juvenile Tree Shrews Do Not Maintain Emmetropia in Narrow-band Blue Light.Optometry and vision science : official publication of the American Academy of Optometry · 2018
    Article
  10. Environmental effects of ozone depletion, UV radiation and interactions with climate change: UNEP Environmental Effects Assessment Panel, update 2017.Photochemical & photobiological sciences : Official journal of the European Photochemistry Association and the European Society for Photobiology · 2018
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  11. Article
4 · The record

Corrections and comments

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

2 authors.

Frank SchaeffelSection of Neurobiology of the Eye, Ophthalmic Research Institute, University of Tuebingen, Elfriede-Aulhorn-Strasse 7, 72076 Tuebingen, Germany. Electronic address: frank.schaeffel@uni-tuebingen.de.
Earl L SmithUniversity of Houston, College of Optometry, 505 J. Davis Armistead Building, Room 2103, 4901 Calhoun Road Houston, TX 77204-2020, United States. Electronic address: esmith1@Central.UH.EDU.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

PubMed holds no abstract for this paper.

Indexed as

MyopiaDisease ProgressionHumansRefraction, Ocular

Identifiers

PMID28109829
PMCPMC5474431

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