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ReviewFrontiers in microbiology2017

Microbial Extracellular Polymeric Substances (EPSs) in Ocean Systems.

Alan W Decho, Tony Gutierrez

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Review in Frontiers in microbiology, 2017. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 175 papers.

0numbers the graph read from it
0cells of the map it votes in
175citing papers in PubMed
40.7field-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

175 citing papers in PubMed, 688 citations in OpenAlex.

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

4 · The record

Corrections and comments

PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

2 authors at 2 institutions in 2 countries.

Alan W DechoDepartment of Environmental Health Sciences, Arnold School of Public Health, University of South Carolina, ColumbiaSC, United States.
Tony GutierrezSchool of Engineering and Physical Sciences, Heriot-Watt UniversityEdinburgh, United Kingdom.
Heriot-Watt University · GBUniversity of South Carolina · US

Funding

Metallopolymer and Antibiotic Bioconjugates against Multidrug Resistant BacteriaR01AI120987 · NIAID · UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA AT COLUMBIA · PI TANG, CHUANBING · 2016 to 2019
$1.4M
NIAID NIH HHS R01 AI120987
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Microbial cells (i.e., bacteria, archaea, microeukaryotes) in oceans secrete a diverse array of large molecules, collectively called extracellular polymeric substances (EPSs) or simply

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bacteriabiofilmEPSoceans researchorganic matter

Identifiers

PMID28603518
PMCPMC5445292
OpenAlexW2616935735

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Registered trials

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