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ArticleJournal of Cancer2017

Prognostic Effect of Albumin-to-Globulin Ratio in Patients with solid tumors: A Systematic Review and Meta-analysis.

Jiaxi He, Hui Pan, Wenhua Liang, Dakai Xiao, Xuewei Chen, Minzhang Guo, Jianxing He

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Article in Journal of Cancer, 2017. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 54 papers, 5 of them syntheses that pooled it.

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54citing papers in PubMed, 5 pooled it
3.8field-weighted citation impact, top 5% 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

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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

54 citing papers in PubMed, 5 syntheses or guidelines pooled it, 102 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

7 authors at 4 institutions in 1 country.

Jiaxi HeDepartment of Thoracic Surgery, the First Affiliated Hospital of Guangzhou Medical University, Guangzhou, China.
Hui PanDepartment of Thoracic Surgery, the First Affiliated Hospital of Guangzhou Medical University, Guangzhou, China.
Wenhua LiangDepartment of Thoracic Surgery, the First Affiliated Hospital of Guangzhou Medical University, Guangzhou, China.
Dakai XiaoDepartment of Thoracic Surgery, the First Affiliated Hospital of Guangzhou Medical University, Guangzhou, China.
Xuewei ChenDepartment of Thoracic Surgery, the First Affiliated Hospital of Guangzhou Medical University, Guangzhou, China.
Minzhang GuoDepartment of Thoracic Surgery, the First Affiliated Hospital of Guangzhou Medical University, Guangzhou, China.
Jianxing HeDepartment of Thoracic Surgery, the First Affiliated Hospital of Guangzhou Medical University, Guangzhou, China.
First Affiliated Hospital of Guangzhou Medical University · CNNational Clinical Research Center for Digestive Diseases · CNGuangzhou Medical University · CNState Key Laboratory of Respiratory Disease · CN

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

PubMed holds no abstract for this paper.

Indexed as

albumin-to-globulin ratio(AGR)meta-analysisprognosissolid tumorsurvival

Identifiers

PMID29187875
PMCPMC5706002
OpenAlexW2765455753

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