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ReviewBreathe (Sheffield, England)2018

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Ilaria Ferrarotti, Stefania Ottaviani, Annalisa De Silvestri, Angelo G Corsico

Open access · diamondAbstract readReview
In one paragraph

Review in Breathe (Sheffield, England), 2018. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 10 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

0numbers the graph read from it
0cells of the map it votes in
10citing papers in PubMed, 1 pooled it
0.7field-weighted citation impact, top 35% 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

10 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 20 citations in OpenAlex.

  1. Guideline
  2. Community-BasedBiomedicines · 2026
    Article
  3. Article
  4. Novel mutation (MMultidisciplinary respiratory medicine · 2026
    Article
  5. Article
  6. Article
  7. Review
  8. Review
  9. Article
  10. Monocytes and Macrophages in Alpha-1 Antitrypsin Deficiency.International journal of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease · 2020
    Review
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

4 authors at 3 institutions in 1 country.

Ilaria FerrarottiCenter for Diagnosis of Inherited Alpha1-antitrypsin Deficiency, Dept of Internal Medicine and Therapeutics, Pneumology Unit, Fondazione IRCCS Policlinico San Matteo, Università di Pavia, Pavia, Italy.
Stefania OttavianiCenter for Diagnosis of Inherited Alpha1-antitrypsin Deficiency, Dept of Internal Medicine and Therapeutics, Pneumology Unit, Fondazione IRCCS Policlinico San Matteo, Università di Pavia, Pavia, Italy.
Annalisa De SilvestriStatistics Dept, Fondazione IRCCS Policlinico San Matteo, Pavia, Italy.
Angelo G CorsicoCenter for Diagnosis of Inherited Alpha1-antitrypsin Deficiency, Dept of Internal Medicine and Therapeutics, Pneumology Unit, Fondazione IRCCS Policlinico San Matteo, Università di Pavia, Pavia, Italy.
Policlinico San Matteo Fondazione · ITIstituti di Ricovero e Cura a Carattere Scientifico · ITUniversity of Pavia · IT

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

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Identifiers

PMID30131830
PMCPMC6095240
OpenAlexW2839978822

What OpenQuestion holds

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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.