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ArticleFrontiers in immunology2018

Fake News or Weak Science? Visibility and Characterization of Antivaccine Webpages Returned by Google in Different Languages and Countries.

Nadia Arif, Majed Al-Jefri, Isabella Harb Bizzi, Gianni Boitano Perano, Michel Goldman, Inam Haq, Kee Leng Chua, Manuela Mengozzi, Marie Neunez, Helen Smith and 1 more

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Article in Frontiers in immunology, 2018. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. An erratum has been issued. Cited by 23 papers.

0numbers the graph read from it
0cells of the map it votes in
23citing papers in PubMed
10.2field-weighted citation impact, top 1% 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

23 citing papers in PubMed, 133 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

11 authors at 5 institutions in 4 countries.

Nadia ArifBrighton and Sussex Medical School, Falmer, United Kingdom.
Majed Al-JefriSchool of Computing, Engineering and Mathematics, University of Brighton, Brighton, United Kingdom.
Isabella Harb BizziUniversidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul, Porto Alegre, Brazil.
Gianni Boitano PeranoSydney Medical School, University of Sydney, Sydney, NSW, Australia.
Michel GoldmanInstitute for Interdisciplinary Innovation in Healthcare, Université libre de Bruxelles, Brussels, Belgium.
Inam HaqSydney Medical School, University of Sydney, Sydney, NSW, Australia.
Kee Leng ChuaLee Kong Chian School of Medicine, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore, Singapore.
Manuela MengozziBrighton and Sussex Medical School, Falmer, United Kingdom.
Marie NeunezInstitute for Interdisciplinary Innovation in Healthcare, Université libre de Bruxelles, Brussels, Belgium.
Helen SmithLee Kong Chian School of Medicine, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore, Singapore.
Pietro GhezziBrighton and Sussex Medical School, Falmer, United Kingdom.
Brighton and Sussex Medical School · GBNanyang Technological University · SGUniversity of Sydney · AUUniversidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul · BRUniversity of Brighton · GB

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The 1998

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Public OpinionVaccinesArabiaEuropeHumansLanguageScienceSearch EngineSocial MediaVaccinationVaccinesautismgoogleinformation qualityInternetnewsnews mediapublic understanding of sciencevaccines

Identifiers

PMID29922286
PMCPMC5996113
OpenAlexW2804254202

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Registered trials

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