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ArticleProceedings. Biological sciences2018

Risky business: linking

Stefanie K Johnson, Markus A Fitza, Daniel A Lerner, Dana M Calhoun, Marissa A Beldon, Elsa T Chan, Pieter T J Johnson

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Article in Proceedings. Biological sciences, 2018. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 21 papers.

0numbers the graph read from it
0cells of the map it votes in
21citing papers in PubMed
8.9field-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

21 citing papers in PubMed, 68 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 4 institutions in 5 countries.

Stefanie K JohnsonLeeds School of Business, University of Colorado, Boulder, CO, USA stefanie.johnson@colorado.edu.
Markus A FitzaFrankfurt School of Finance and Management, Frankfurt, Germany and Nord University Business School, Bodø, Norway.
Daniel A LernerDeusto Business School, University of Deusto, Bilbao, Spain.
Dana M CalhounEcology and Evolutionary Biology, University of Colorado, Boulder, CO, USA.
Marissa A BeldonLeeds School of Business, University of Colorado, Boulder, CO, USA.
Elsa T ChanDepartment of Management, College of Business, City University of Hong Kong, Kowloon Tong, Hong Kong.
Pieter T J JohnsonEcology and Evolutionary Biology, University of Colorado, Boulder, CO, USA.ORCID 0000-0002-7997-5390
University of Colorado Boulder · USCity University of Hong Kong · HKNord University · NOUniversidad de Deusto · ES

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Disciplines such as business and economics often rely on the assumption of rationality when explaining complex human behaviours. However, growing evidence suggests that behaviour may concurrently be influenced by infectious microorganisms. The protozoan

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AdultAntibodies, ProtozoanEntrepreneurshipFemaleHumansImmunoglobulin GMaleMiddle AgedPrevalenceRisk FactorsSeroepidemiologic StudiesToxoplasmaToxoplasmosisAntibodies, ProtozoanImmunoglobulin Gdisease ecologyemerging infectious diseaseentrepreneurshiphuman behaviourparasite manipulationToxoplasma gondii

Identifiers

PMID30051870
PMCPMC6083268
OpenAlexW2883786954

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Registered trials

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