Evidence map›Paper›PMID 31641433›Full record

ReviewInterface focus2019

On the beneficent thickness of water.

E Branscomb, M J Russell

Erratum issuedAbstract readReview
In one paragraph

Review in Interface focus, 2019. 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 7 papers.

0numbers the graph read from it
0cells of the map it votes in
7citing papers in PubMed
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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

7 citing papers in PubMed.

  1. Subcellular systems follow Onsager reciprocity.npj biomedical innovations · 2025
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  2. Review
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  6. The "Water Problem"(Life (Basel, Switzerland) · 2021
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

2 authors.

E BranscombCarl R. Woese Institute for Genomic Biology, and Department of Physics, University of Illinois, 3113 IGB MC 195, 128 W. Gregory Dr., Urbana, IL 61801, USA.ORCID 0000-0002-7194-4231
M J RussellNASA Astrobiology Institute, Ames Research Center, Mountain View, CA, USA.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

In the 1930s, Lars Onsager published his famous 'reciprocal relations' describing free energy conversion processes. Importantly, these relations were derived on the assumption that the fluxes of the processes involved in the conversion were proportional to the forces (free energy gradients) driving them. For chemical reactions, however, this condition holds only for systems operating close to equilibrium-indeed very close; nominally requiring driving forces to be smaller than

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abiogenesisalkaline vent theorydisequilibriafar-from-equilibrium thermodynamics

Identifiers

PMID31641433
PMCPMC6802126

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Registered trials

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