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ArticlePLoS biology2018

Reply to "Far away from the lamppost".

Thomas Stoeger, Martin Gerlach, Richard I Morimoto, Luís A Nunes Amaral

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Article in PLoS biology, 2018. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 1 paper, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

0numbers the graph read from it
0cells of the map it votes in
1citing papers in PubMed, 1 pooled it
–field-weighted citation impact
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

1 citing paper in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.

  1. Pooled it
4 · The record

Corrections and comments

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

4 authors.

Thomas StoegerNorthwestern University, Center for Genetic Medicine, Chicago, Illinois, United States of America.ORCID 0000-0002-5540-4278
Martin GerlachNorthwestern University, Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering, Evanston, Illinois, United States of America.ORCID 0000-0002-0879-7865
Richard I MorimotoNorthwestern University, Department of Molecular Bioscience, Evanston, Illinois, United States of America.
Luís A Nunes AmaralNorthwestern University, Northwestern Institute on Complex Systems, Evanston, Illinois, United States of America.

Funding

C. elegans Model for Neurodegenerative Diseases of AgingR37AG026647 · NIA · NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY · PI MORIMOTO, RICHARD I · 2010 to 2019
$3.9M
NIA NIH HHS R37 AG026647
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

In this Formal Comment, the authors of the recent publication "Large-scale investigation of the reasons why potentially important genes are ignored" maintain that it can be read as an opportunity to explore the unknown.

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PMID30532190
PMCPMC6289499

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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.