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ArticleProceedings. Biological sciences2019

Games academics play and their consequences: how authorship,

Colin A Chapman, Júlio César Bicca-Marques, Sébastien Calvignac-Spencer, Pengfei Fan, Peter J Fashing, Jan Gogarten, Songtao Guo, Claire A Hemingway, Fabian Leendertz, Baoguo Li and 4 more

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Article in Proceedings. Biological sciences, 2019. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 31 papers.

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31citing 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

31 citing papers in PubMed.

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  20. Academic Promotion of Physicians in Medical Schools: A Special Focus on Primary Health Care in Taiwan.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2021
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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

14 authors.

Colin A ChapmanDepartment of Anthropology, Center for the Advanced Study of Human Paleobiology, The George Washington University, Washington, DC 20037, USA.
Júlio César Bicca-MarquesEscola de Ciências, Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Rio Grande do Sul, Porto Alegre, Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil.
Sébastien Calvignac-SpencerViral Evolution, Robert Koch Institute, Seestraße 10, 13353 Berlin, Germany.
Pengfei FanSchool of Life Sciences, Sun Yat-Sen University, Guangzhou, 510275 Guangdong, People's Republic of China.
Peter J FashingDepartment of Anthropology and Environmental Studies Program, California State University Fullerton, Fullerton, CA 92834, USA.
Jan GogartenViral Evolution, Robert Koch Institute, Seestraße 10, 13353 Berlin, Germany.
Songtao GuoShaanxi Key Laboratory for Animal Conservation, Northwest University, Xi'an, People's Republic of China.
Claire A HemingwayOffice of International Science and Engineering at National Science Foundation, Virginia, USA.
Fabian LeendertzEpidemiology of Highly Pathogenic Microorganisms, Robert Koch Institute, Seestraße 10, 13353 Berlin, Germany.
Baoguo LiShaanxi Key Laboratory for Animal Conservation, Northwest University, Xi'an, People's Republic of China.
Ikki MatsudaChubu University Academy of Emerging Sciences, 1200 Matsumoto-cho, Kasugai-shi, Aichi 487-8501, Japan.
Rong HouDepartment of Anthropology, McGill University, Montreal, Quebec, Canada H3A 2A7.
Juan Carlos Serio-SilvaRed de Biología y Conservación de Vertebrados, Instituto de Ecología AC, Xalapa, México.
Nils Chr StensethCentre for Ecological and Evolutionary Synthesis (CEES), Department of Biosciences, University of Oslo, P.O. Box 1066, Blindern, 0316 Oslo, Norway.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Research is a highly competitive profession where evaluation plays a central role; journals are ranked and individuals are evaluated based on their publication number, the number of times they are cited and their

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AuthorshipResearchAcademies and InstitutesJournal Impact Factoracademic ethicsacademic evaluationacademic standardsh-indeximpact factorspublishing practices

Identifiers

PMID31797732
PMCPMC6939250

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