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Stop this waste of people, animals and money.
Article in Nature, 2017. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 70 papers, 2 of them syntheses that pooled 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.
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
70 citing papers in PubMed, 2 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.
- Effects of perioperative benzodiazepine administration on postoperative patient-reported outcomes: a systematic review and meta-analysis of randomised controlled trials.British journal of anaesthesia · 2025Pooled it
- Are all stem cells equal? Systematic review, evidence map, and meta-analyses of preclinical stem cell-based therapies for bronchopulmonary dysplasia.Stem cells translational medicine · 2020Pooled it
- Research integrity in Spain: Great expectations, mediocre results.Accountability in research · 2026Article
- Knowledge, practices, and perception of predatory journals among North-African Dental University Hospital Doctors.BMC medical education · 2026Article
- Predatory medical journals' awareness among clinical and non-clinical researchers in Saudi Arabia: a survey.BMC medical education · 2026Article
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- Beyond predatory journals: peer review transparency as a preventive strategy for editorial integrity in scholarly communication.Frontiers in research metrics and analytics · 2026Article
- Fragile research systems, brain drain, and predatory publishing in under-resourced countries.microLife · 2026Article
- Analyzing the citation impact of predatory journals in the health sciences.Journal of the Medical Library Association : JMLA · 2025Article
- Journals Operating Predatory Practices Are Systematically Eroding the Science Ethos: A Gate and Code Strategy to Minimise Their Operating Space and Restore Research Best Practice.Microbial biotechnology · 2025Article
- Investigating the trustworthiness of research evidence used to inform public health policy: a qualitative interview study on the use of predatory journal citations in policy documents.Health research policy and systems · 2025Article
- Predatory Publishing Awareness Among Dental Interns in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia: A Cross-Sectional Study.Advances in medical education and practice · 2025Article
- Searching for studies: A guide to information retrieval for Campbell systematic reviews.Campbell systematic reviews · 2024Article
- Review
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- Do orthopaedics surgeons have any idea what predatory journals are?:(cross-sectional study).Heliyon · 2024Article
- Predatory publishing in medical education: a rapid scoping review.BMC medical education · 2024Article
- The Social Contract at Risk: COVID-19 Misinformation in South Africa.Jamba (Potchefstroom, South Africa) · 2024Article
- The future of academic publishing.Nature human behaviour · 2023Article
- Increasing our return on investment in science: Start with better behavior.Journal of sport and health science · 2023Article
10 more citing papers are in PubMed but not listed here.
Corrections and comments
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Authors and funding
32 authors.
Funding
No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.
Abstract
PubMed holds no abstract for this paper.
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Identifiers
28880300What OpenQuestion holds
Registered trials
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.