Evidence map›Paper›PMID 29535972›Full record

ReviewFrontiers in cellular and infection microbiology2018

Factors Mediating Environmental Biofilm Formation by

Arwa Abu Khweek, Amal O Amer

Open access · goldAbstract readReview
In one paragraph

Review in Frontiers in cellular and infection microbiology, 2018. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 57 papers.

0numbers the graph read from it
0cells of the map it votes in
57citing papers in PubMed
8.6field-weighted citation impact, top 2% 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

57 citing papers in PubMed, 104 citations in OpenAlex.

  1. Article
  2. Infection and drug resistance · 2026
    Review
  3. A Rapid and Sensitive CRISPR-Cas12a for the Detection ofPolish journal of microbiology · 2025
    Article
  4. Article
  5. Microorganisms · 2025
    Article
  6. Pathogens (Basel, Switzerland) · 2025
    Review
  7. Article
  8. Article
  9. Occurrence of UnculturedPathogens (Basel, Switzerland) · 2024
    Article
  10. Article
  11. Ecology ofBiofilm · 2024
    Review
  12. Article
  13. Article
  14. Comparison ofACS ES&T water · 2023
    Article
  15. Article
  16. Article
  17. Article
  18. Microorganisms · 2023
    Article
  19. Review
  20. Article
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.

Arwa Abu KhweekDepartment of Biology and Biochemistry, Birzeit University, West Bank, Palestine.
Amal O AmerDepartment of Microbial Infection and Immunity, Center for Microbial Interface Biology, College of Medicine, Ohio State University, Columbus, OH, United States.
Birzeit University · PSThe Ohio State University · US

Funding

The role of microRNA-calibrated autophagy in innate immunity and inflammationR01HL127651 · NHLBI · OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY · PI AMER, AMAL O, CORMET-BOYAKA, ESTELLE A · 2015 to 2018
$1.5M
Human susceptibility to Legionella infectionR21AI113477 · NIAID · OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY · PI AMER, AMAL O · 2015 to 2016
$434k
NHLBI NIH HHS R01 HL127651NIAID NIH HHS R21 AI113477
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

PubMed holds no abstract for this paper.

Indexed as

BiofilmsEnvironmental MicrobiologyBiodiversityEnvironmentFactor Analysis, StatisticalGene Expression ProfilingIronLegionella pneumophilaLegionnaires' DiseaseMicrobial ViabilityQuorum SensingIronbiofilmLegionella pneumophilaLegionellosisplanktonicprotozoa

Identifiers

PMID29535972
PMCPMC5835138
OpenAlexW2793322843

What OpenQuestion holds

Textmetadata
LicenceCC BY
Read underepoch 390

Registered trials

None linked

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.