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ArticleBritish medical journal (Clinical research ed.)1988

Fraud in medicine.

S Lock

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Article in British medical journal (Clinical research ed.), 1988. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 9 papers.

0numbers the graph read from it
0cells of the map it votes in
9citing papers in PubMed
–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

9 citing papers in PubMed.

  1. Fraud and deceit in medical research.Journal of research in medical sciences : the official journal of Isfahan University of Medical Sciences · 2012
    Article
  2. Further thoughts on authorship: gift authorship.Clinical orthopaedics and related research · 2012
    Article
  3. Article
  4. The misconduct of redundant publication.Annals of the rheumatic diseases · 1996
    Article
  5. Article
  6. Is it worth writing about?Journal of the Royal Society of Medicine · 1993
    Article
  7. Is there a place for research in surgical training?Postgraduate medical journal · 1992
    Article
  8. Wind of change. II. Medical journals in Britain in 1988.Journal of the Royal Society of Medicine · 1988
    Article
  9. Problems with peer review and alternatives.British medical journal (Clinical research ed.) · 1988
    Article
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

1 author.

S Lock

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

PubMed holds no abstract for this paper.

Indexed as

Biomedical ResearchCrimeFraudPublishingResearchEditorial PoliciesUnited StatesBiomedical and Behavioral Research

Identifiers

PMID3125906
PMCPMC2544965

What OpenQuestion holds

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Registered trials

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