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ReviewJournal of bacteriology2020

Are There 10

A R Mushegian

Abstract readReview
In one paragraph

Review in Journal of bacteriology, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 165 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

0numbers the graph read from it
0cells of the map it votes in
165citing 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

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

  1. Pooled it
  2. Revisiting the life cycle of temperate phages.Nature reviews. Microbiology · 2026
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  17. Isolation and characterization of broad-rangeMicrobiology (Reading, England) · 2026
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  20. Hierarchical genotype networks and incipient ecological speciation in Q[Formula: see text] phage quasispecies.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2026
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105 more citing papers are in PubMed but not listed here.

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.

A R MushegianMolecular and Cellular Biology Division, National Science Foundation, Alexandria, Virginia, USA mushegian2@gmail.com.ORCID 0000-0002-6809-9225

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The number of virus particles on Earth is frequently reported in the scientific literature and in general-interest publications as being on the order of 10

Indexed as

Earth, PlanetEcosystemPhylogenyVirionbionumbersglobal viromevirion numbers

Identifiers

PMID32071093
PMCPMC7148134

What OpenQuestion holds

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Registered trials

None linked

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.