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ArticleNature biotechnology2018

Brain leaks and consumer neurotechnology.

Marcello Ienca, Pim Haselager, Ezekiel J Emanuel

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Article in Nature biotechnology, 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 43 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

0numbers the graph read from it
0cells of the map it votes in
43citing papers in PubMed, 1 pooled it
8.0field-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

43 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 165 citations in OpenAlex.

  1. Pooled it
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

3 authors at 3 institutions in 3 countries.

Marcello IencaHealth Ethics & Policy Lab, Department of Health Sciences and Technology, ETH Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland; and at the Institute for Biomedical Ethics, University of Basel, Basel, Switzerland.ORCID 0000-0001-8835-5444
Pim HaselagerDonders Institute for Brain, Cognition and Behaviour, Radboud University, Nijmegen, the Netherlands.
Ezekiel J EmanuelDepartment of Medical Ethics and Health Policy, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA.
Radboud University Nijmegen · NLUniversity of Basel · CHUniversity of Pennsylvania · US

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

PubMed holds no abstract for this paper.

Indexed as

BiotechnologyBrainBrain-Computer InterfacesCommunity ParticipationElectroencephalographyHumansInternetMobile ApplicationsNeurosciencesPrivacySoftware

Identifiers

PMID30188521
OpenAlexW2890869158

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Registered trials

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