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ArticlePLoS biology2017

Additional support for RCR: A validated article-level measure of scientific influence.

B Ian Hutchins, Travis A Hoppe, Rebecca A Meseroll, James M Anderson, George M Santangelo

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Article in PLoS biology, 2017. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 19 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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0cells of the map it votes in
19citing papers in PubMed, 1 pooled it
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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

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

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  11. Impact of National Institutes of Health and Food and Drug Administration Tobacco Research Funding: A Bibliometrics Analyses.Nicotine & tobacco research : official journal of the Society for Research on Nicotine and Tobacco · 2023
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  17. The relative citation ratio: what is it and why should medical librarians care?Journal of the Medical Library Association : JMLA · 2018
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

5 authors.

B Ian HutchinsOffice of Portfolio Analysis, Division of Program Coordination, Planning, and Strategic Initiatives, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America.
Travis A HoppeOffice of Portfolio Analysis, Division of Program Coordination, Planning, and Strategic Initiatives, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America.
Rebecca A MeserollOffice of Portfolio Analysis, Division of Program Coordination, Planning, and Strategic Initiatives, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America.
James M AndersonDivision of Program Coordination, Planning, and Strategic Initiatives, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America.
George M SantangeloOffice of Portfolio Analysis, Division of Program Coordination, Planning, and Strategic Initiatives, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America.ORCID 0000-0002-7201-3164

Funding

Novel approaches to study dynamic coupling of the tight junction barrier to the actin cytoskeletonZIAHL006207 · NHLBI · NATIONAL HEART, LUNG, AND BLOOD INSTITUTE · PI ANDERSON, JAMES · 2016 to 2016
$461k
Intramural NIH HHS Z99 OD999999
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

PubMed holds no abstract for this paper.

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Identifiers

PMID28968381
PMCPMC5624567

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