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ArticleScientific reports2018

Effect of Electroacupuncture on

Rui Gao, Shan Gao, Jinteng Feng, Hongying Cui, Yanchao Cui, Junke Fu, Guangjian Zhang

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Article in Scientific reports, 2018. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 5 papers.

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5citing papers in PubMed
1.0field-weighted citation impact, top 22% 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

5 citing papers in PubMed, 8 citations in OpenAlex.

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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

7 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Rui GaoDepartment of Nuclear Medicine, The First Affiliated Hospital of Xian Jiaotong University, Xi'an, Shaanxi, China, 710061.
Shan GaoDepartment of Thoracic Surgery, The First Affiliated Hospital of Xian Jiaotong University, Xi'an, Shaanxi, China, 710061.
Jinteng FengDepartment of Thoracic Surgery, The First Affiliated Hospital of Xian Jiaotong University, Xi'an, Shaanxi, China, 710061.
Hongying CuiDepartment of Traditional Medicine, The First Affiliated Hospital of Xian Jiaotong University, Xi'an, Shaanxi, China, 710061.
Yanchao CuiDepartment of Traditional Medicine, The First Affiliated Hospital of Xian Jiaotong University, Xi'an, Shaanxi, China, 710061.
Junke FuDepartment of Thoracic Surgery, The First Affiliated Hospital of Xian Jiaotong University, Xi'an, Shaanxi, China, 710061.
Guangjian ZhangDepartment of Thoracic Surgery, The First Affiliated Hospital of Xian Jiaotong University, Xi'an, Shaanxi, China, 710061. michael8039@163.com.
First Affiliated Hospital of Xi'an Jiaotong University · CN

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Electroacupuncture (EA) is a therapeutic modality in which the electrical stimulation is integrated with concepts of acupuncture to treat diseases. This study was designed to evaluate the connection between the electro-acupuncture induced increase in Na

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Identifiers

PMID29712933
PMCPMC5928125
OpenAlexW2802619395

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